How to Use fuel oil in a Sentence

fuel oil

noun

• Prices rose the fastest for fuel oil , a change of 68.77% from prices a year ago this month.
  — Nick Timiraos, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2022
• The pot would be filled with a fuel oil such as kerosene and the rod would be placed inside so the pumice could soak up the fuel.
  — oregonlive, 1 Feb. 2020
• About 550 gallons of fuel oil was recovered at the site of the spill with suction pumps.
  — Eula Calahan, Arkansas Online, 18 July 2023
• The plant switched to natural gas in the 1980s, but continued to use fuel oil as a backup for years.
  — Phil Diehl, sandiegouniontribune.com, 24 Jan. 2018
• Distillates are used to make diesel and some fuel oils and heating oils.
  — Jordan Blum, Houston Chronicle, 11 July 2018
• The ship was carrying nearly 300 tons of heavy fuel oil at the time of the incident, the ship's owner said.
  — NBC News, 2 June 2021
• Gas prices are up 50 percent year-on-year, while fuel oil prices are up 59 percent.
  — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 11 Nov. 2021
• The fuel oil portion of the consumer price index nearly doubled from the same time last year.
  — Arkansas Online, 20 July 2022
• Some 3,000 gallons of the oil, thick and viscous Bunker C or heavy fuel oil, was contained in a rubber tank.
  — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Feb. 2018
• The United States also agreed to sell North Korea some fuel oil.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 9 Mar. 2018
• But response crews have voiced concerns about the looming fate of the heavy fuel oil or bunker fuel that powered the tanker.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 16 Jan. 2018
• A decade ago, the cruise line ditched heavy fuel oil in favor of cleaner-burning marine gas oil.
  — Christopher Elliott, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2022
• At the border in Ivangorod, spikes of barbed wire pierced the azure sky and smoke from burning fuel oil rose from the chimneys of the customs building.
  — Vadim Smyslov, WIRED, 21 Feb. 2024
• On an average global route, each sail can save up to 1.5 tons of heavy fuel oil (HFO) per day.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 24 Aug. 2023
• If that happens, doing away with fossil heavy fuel oil may not be such a heavy lift.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2022
• The power company is required to buy only high-grade fuel oil, the board said.
  — Danica Coto, SFChronicle.com, 1 July 2019
• But that’s small fries compared with the price of energy, which soared 27%, driven by the rising cost of fuel oil and home heating.
  — Kenneth R. Gosselin, courant.com, 17 Feb. 2022
• The biggest challenge for the shipping industry is moving away from heavy fuel oil, a type of diesel used by most of the world's tankers and cargo ships.
  — Natalie Croker, CNN, 3 Oct. 2019
• Nearly all of it is enabled by burning heavy fuel oil, but that is beginning to change.
  — Cara Buckley, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2023
• In the early 20th century, most of the U.S. Navy’s big warships used coal, not fuel oil, to heat their boilers and provide power.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 27 Feb. 2023
• The biggest increase of all categories and energy types was fuel oil (used to heat homes) at 59.1%.
  — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 11 Nov. 2021
• Most ships, especially the big ones that do the heavy hauling, burn what’s called high-sulfur fuel oil, or bunker fuel.
  — Wired, 23 Sep. 2019
• The price of energy has surged 26% over the last year, sharply increasing the cost of gasoline, fuel oil and natural gas for home heating.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 10 Mar. 2022
• One concern is that, since the Sanchi sank, marine life will be endangered by the fuel oil’s spreading instead of burning off.
  — Gerry Mullany, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2018
• The first is that New England states burn billions of gallons of fuel oil because new natural gas pipelines have been shut out of these states.
  — Ed Hirs, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
• The ban on Russian oil includes straight-run fuel oil, a feedstock used to replace heavy crude that’s similar to what Ecuador produces.
  — Lucia Kassai, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2022
• With the Baiji refinery now offline, the Baiji power plant now has no supply of heavy fuel oil.
  — Andrew Shaver, Foreign Affairs, 23 Oct. 2015
• In New England, most homes are heated with fuel oil or natural gas, and gas or propane is used widely for cooking.
  — Katherine Blunt, WSJ, 31 July 2021
• Saudi Aramco, which handles oil shipments for the kingdom, declined to comment on the fuel oil imports.
  — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 12 July 2024
• The investigation revealed about 16 gallons of water had leaked into the fuel oil supply tank.
  — USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024