How to Use gasoline in a Sentence

gasoline

noun

• The words seem to be formed of maple syrup (slow) or gasoline (fast).
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• The crash caused some 8,500 gallons of gasoline to spill over the highway.
  — Molly Walsh | [e-mail], cleveland, 28 Oct. 2022
• In the spring of 2022, the cost of gasoline rose to above five dollars a gallon in many parts of the country.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
• Burning gasoline is a cost that's paid again, and again, and again.
  — Camila Domonoske, NPR, 9 May 2024
• You’ll be charged even more to fill your tank when summer blend gasoline hits the pumps.
  — Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 2 Apr. 2024
• The water has an odor that smells fishy or like gasoline.
  — Hannah Poukish, Sacramento Bee, 9 July 2024
• And to be sure, gasoline engines also can lose around 15% of their range in the cold.
  — Tom Krisher and Mark Thiessen, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Mar. 2023
• Most gasoline sold in the U.S. contains 10% ethanol, and the fuel is a key part of the economy in the Midwest.
  — Matthew Daly, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2023
• All of this has helped depress not just gasoline prices but diesel, too.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 15 May 2023
• Kromelis was sleeping when a man threw gasoline on his head and set him ablaze.
  — CBS News, 12 Dec. 2022
• At their peak, gasoline prices were just over $5 a gallon in mid-June.
  — Isabella Simonetti, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2022
• The average cost of gasoline in the U.S. has dropped below the price a year ago, the first time that has occurred in 22 months.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 8 Dec. 2022
• Global oil prices account for more than half the cost of gasoline.
  — Isabella Simonetti, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2022
• 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
• The city’s fire chief said there was evidence gasoline was used.
  — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 1 Dec. 2023
• Open the shutoff valve in the spring, add some fresh gasoline, and the mower should start easily.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 21 Mar. 2023
• Much of the move higher in the CPI came from a 2.6% gain in energy prices for the month, pushed higher by a 4.4% surge in gasoline.
  — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 15 Jan. 2025
• Later, the group gathered with a jug of gasoline to burn the 1963 Ford vehicle.
  — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 21 June 2024
• Mills said the only expense is the cost of her laundry supplies and gasoline.
  — Brenda Cain, cleveland, 7 Sep. 2023
• Rip soaks Jamie's car in gasoline and tosses a match inside.
  — Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Dec. 2024
• Hogan thinks that gasoline prices will stay the same as long as crude oil prices remain rangebound.
  — Lisa Kailai Han,gabriel Cortés, CNBC, 20 Jan. 2025
• The drip torch has a wick that stays lit while in use and a long metal tube that drips a mixture of diesel fuel and gasoline over the wick.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 12 Feb. 2023
• Those rules didn’t just govern what came out of a gasoline engine’s tailpipe.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 28 Jan. 2025
• This threatens a further rise in gasoline prices in the United States and elsewhere.
  — Anna Cooban, CNN, 2 Apr. 2024
• His goal is to reduce gasoline and heating oil prices to $2 a gallon.
  — Andrew Kitchenman, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Oct. 2022
• After the murder, the trio drove 90 miles to Ottawa County and set him on fire with gasoline.
  — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 6 June 2024
• The vehicle had been doused with gasoline, although there were no signs of fire.
  — Warren Kulo | [e-mail], al, 6 Apr. 2023
• Here's where to find it What goes into retail gasoline prices?
  — The Arizona Republic, 5 Apr. 2024
• The tanker truck, which was transporting 8,500 gallons of gasoline, flipped on an off-ramp.
  — Kate Perez, USA TODAY, 17 June 2023
• One night, the story goes, Lewis pulled out a Coke bottle filled with gasoline and poured it on his piano.
  — Tom Zito, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 16 Feb 2025