How to Use gallon in a Sentence

gallon

noun

• This thing will still be on the road when the last gallon of gasoline is produced, or until the heat death of the universe.
  — Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 26 Oct. 2022
• If nothing is done, then gasoline prices would increase by 25 cents per gallon on Dec. 1.
  — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 13 Nov. 2022
• Available in a two-ounce bottle or a gallon, The Laundress's best-selling laundry detergent is what started it all.
  — Jessica Cherner, House Beautiful, 1 Nov. 2022
• North Carolina this year taxes gasoline at 40.4 cents per gallon, up 2 cents from last year and the fifth-highest in the country.
  — Alan Wooten | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 4 Oct. 2024
• Gas prices increased 17 cents a gallon last week after Florida’s monthlong gas tax holiday expired.
  — Ron Hurtibise, Sun Sentinel, 7 Nov. 2022
• There are no pipelines delivering gas into the region to meet Florida’s daily appetite of 20 million gallons of gas.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 14 Oct. 2024
• In April, the industry’s share of the price of a gallon of gas was $1.66.
  — Kristin J. Bender, The Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2024
• Since last week, the price in the state fell to an average of $3.07 per gallon.
  — Nour Rahal, Detroit Free Press, 19 Dec. 2022
• The restaurant goes through 10 gallons of the mild beef-and-bean chili every day.
  — Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2024
• The answer wasn’t so much a word as a growl and maybe a gallon of green, sticky vomit.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2023
• The east Valley led the list, with a change of more than 30 cents per gallon since last Wednesday.
  — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 17 Aug. 2023
• Gas taxes will be hiked by as much as five cents a gallon over the next four years.
  — The Editors, National Review, 31 May 2023
• The West and Hawaii are the places where the average price of a gallon of regular gas is over $4.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 26 May 2023
• That works out to 35 grams of salt per liter of water, or half a cup per gallon in home-cook terms.
  — Julia Moskin, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2024
• That's at least 240 gallons according to the back of the envelope.
  — Molly Robey, Washington Post, 11 June 2023
• Add to each gallon of mix a half tablespoon of dolomitic lime.
  — Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 20 July 2024
• Mix ⅓ cup bleach per gallon of water, spray or mop it on, then scrub.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
• Since oil prices are linked to gasoline prices, the price for a gallon of gas is expected to rise.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2023
• And prices continue to fall — the average price is down 11 cents a gallon in just the last week.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 20 Nov. 2022
• That’s potentially a lot of getting around for less than the cost of a gallon of gas.
  — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 4 Sep. 2023
• Prices in the Miami area are 3.5 cents per gallon higher than a month ago.
  — Miami Herald Archives Update, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2024
• Prices in the Miami area are 10.3 cents per gallon lower than a month ago.
  — Miami Herald Consumer Team, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2024
• Turns out Mergner needed just a gallon of black paint – a thick-as-honey gloss used to paint boats – for the 10-by-10 foot steel arch and posts.
  — The Enquirer, 10 Dec. 2022
• To make your own DE mixture, blend ½ gallon of water with 1 cup of DE powder.
  — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Aug. 2024
• Each ship that goes through the canal uses about 55 million gallons of water, most of which then gets flushed out to sea as the ship makes its way through the canal.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 30 Aug. 2023
• But for Arizona drivers, $4 a gallon would be a summer dream come true.
  — Kris Van Cleave, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2023
• Size Matters Start with plants that are 1 gallon or smaller.
  — Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023
• In gasoline cars, our unit of energy was the gallon of fuel.
  — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
• Billions of gallons of water would be trapped in the dead-pool reservoir with no easy way to release them into the Grand Canyon.
  — Zak Podmore, The Denver Post, 30 Sep. 2024
• One hundred and ninety-eight gallons of mole sauce will be made for the chicken, every night.
  — Matt Richtel David Williams, New York Times, 6 June 2023

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024