How to Use petroleum in a Sentence

petroleum

noun

• This laundry stick looks like a bar of soap and is free of petroleum, phosphates, parabens, and dyes.
  — Brandi Fuller, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 June 2023
• The type of plastic used also affects the amount of petroleum used.
  — Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2023
• Traders figure that there is enough petroleum on hand around the world to deal with any supply problems.
  — Stanley Reed, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2024
• Polypropylene is a type of plastic that comes from petroleum, which may lead to some concerns about its safety in the home.
  — Alida Nugent, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Feb. 2024
• Most candles sold in the United States are made from paraffin wax, which is a byproduct of petroleum.
  — Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 5 Oct. 2023
• But part of the answer is to be able to create petroleum without adding CO2 to the environment.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2023
• It was being used by the petroleum giant BP to frack for fossil fuels.
  — Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
• His current rank is as a sergeant first class and his job is a petroleum supply specialist.
  — Luis Martinez, ABC News, 26 Oct. 2023
• Yet, the artificial color, which is derived from petroleum, is still used to give foods and medicines a bright red hue.
  — Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 10 Oct. 2023
• Shapiro said the tanker was carrying some kind of petroleum product.
  — Julianne McShane, NBC News, 12 June 2023
• Corruption has long been rampant in Venezuela, which sits atop the world’s largest petroleum reserves.
  — Regina Garcia Cano, ajc, 21 Mar. 2023
• All around it are acres of commercial trucks, stopped for the night and carrying every kind of cargo: cows, weed, pro-wrestling rings, grain, petroleum.
  — Andrew Kay, WIRED, 17 Jan. 2023
• Then the switch from steam to oil made petroleum deposits treasures beyond measure.
  — Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• What would the kid who’s got a petroleum engineering degree coming out of UTEP say?
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Apr. 2023
• Coal and petroleum products remain among the primary sources of air pollution around the world.
  — Jyoti Madhusoodanan, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
• Haifa, which accounts for about a fifth of Israel's petroleum imports, is still open.
  — Joe Wallace, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2023
• And the Interior Department plans to issue new rules to block oil and gas leases on more than 13 million of the 23 million acres that form the petroleum reserve.
  — Lisa Friedman, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2023
• Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at the price-comparison website GasBuddy.com, warned that the reprieve could be short-lived.
  — Ron Hurtibise, Sun Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2023
• But when oil prices surged in the wake of the Ukraine war in 2022, the president was quick to release oil from the strategic petroleum reserve and take a softer stance toward the fossil fuel industry.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2024
• Synthetic rubber and carbon black, which together make up roughly half the weight of a car tire, are made from petroleum.
  — Michael Grabell, ProPublica, 3 May 2023
• The Hawaii Department of Health confirmed that the water had petroleum levels 350 times above what is considered safe.
  — Adam Yamaguchi, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2023
• Ahead, the battle raged, as Saddam’s bombers targeted tankers filled with petroleum leaving the island’s port.
  — Stephen Witt, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2023
• Pipelines are the best way to transport oil, natural gas, and refined petroleum products over long ...
  — Dominic Pino, National Review, 7 June 2023
• The war scrambled the world’s petroleum supply, and by midsummer, U.S. gasoline prices were pushing $5 a gallon.
  — Politifact Staff Writer, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2023
• The shipping is more expensive because the price of petroleum products are higher.
  — Michael Calore, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2023
• Officials said the tanker contained a petroleum product that may have been hundreds of gallons of gasoline.
  — Ron Todt, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2023
• Officials said the tanker contained a petroleum product that may have been hundreds of gallons (hundreds of liters) of gasoline.
  — Ron Todt, Fortune, 12 June 2023
• The foundation of our attempt to move anyway from the use of petroleum products for energy sits, at least right now, on lithium and its use in batteries.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2023
• But there was a reason Russian petroleum, on paper at least, could so easily be removed from the supply chain.
  — Jonathan O'Connell, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
• But regimes led by both the Congress and the BJP have granted a free license to coal and petroleum extraction and other polluting industries.
  — Ramachandra Guha, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024