How to Use refinery in a Sentence

refinery

noun

• Yeah, well, our school was right in the middle of the refinery.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2024
• The last strike at Marathon's Detroit refinery was in 1994, the union said.
  — Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 4 Sep. 2024
• This is the second fire at a BP oil refinery in less than a month.
  — Ronn Blitzer, Fox News, 21 Sep. 2022
• The only that is not, in the tenth spot, is BP’s oil refinery along Lake Michigan.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Dec. 2022
• The port, the refinery and the trade zone are among the biggest infrastructure projects in the continent.
  — Tom Page, CNN, 17 Nov. 2022
• Haidai said the Russians were fighting for control of an oil refinery on the city's edge.
  — Arkansas Online, 2 July 2022
• Haidai said the Russians were fighting for control of an oil refinery on the city’s edge.
  — Francesca Ebel, Chicago Tribune, 1 July 2022
• In Abadan, a city once home to the world's largest oil refinery, videos also showed workers walking off the job.
  — Jon Gambrell, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2022
• Particles mirror the light of the sun setting on the horizon while homes and refineries on the west side shape the skyline.
  — Alixel Cabrera, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
• And looming in the background, dotting the horizon like the bones of long dead dinosaurs, are the refineries themselves.
  — Matt Monagle, Chron, 7 Apr. 2023
• The Utes is also proposing to built their own refinery on its reservation in the area.
  — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2023
• As the parade was coming to an end, drones hit an oil refinery in the Ural Mountains, 750 miles east of Moscow.
  — Anatoly Kurmanaev Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 9 May 2024
• If the expense falls on the refineries, simple economics says the cost will be passed on to consumers.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
• The paper mill is gone now, the steel mill is about to close, and many of the oil refineries are shifting to renewable energy.
  — Calmatters, The Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2024
• The company also says oil prices would rise and refineries would be put at risk.
  — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 11 July 2024
• This site, south of Perth, was once BP’s biggest oil refinery in Australia.
  — Max Bearak Giacomo D’orlando, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2023
• The Suncor refinery provides about one-third of the gasoline used in Colorado.
  — Noelle Phillips, The Denver Post, 28 May 2024
• The same is true of the Russia-Ukraine war, where oil refineries deep inside Russia have been hit by drone attacks.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 10 July 2024
• According to the statement, no coke dust escaped the refinery grounds.
  — Will McCarthy, The Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2024
• The few refineries that do produce SAF sell it in small quantities.
  — Jaclyn Trop, Robb Report, 6 Apr. 2023
• The ranch, a seven-thousand-acre nature reserve, is just off the highway, a few miles from a Chevron refinery.
  — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
• The ability of solar fuels to produce fuels was shown to work in the year 2019 in a mini refinery on the roof of ETH Zurich.
  — Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 25 June 2024
• Steam escaping from stacks at an oil refinery in Port Arthur, Texas.
  — Wired, 29 July 2022
• One refinery that had served the East Coast closed after an explosion in 2019 and never re-opened.
  — Arkansas Online, 20 July 2022
• Video posted on Twitter also showed a section of the refinery in flames.
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 21 Sep. 2022
• Outside the window is a small pastel-colored playground with a view of the refinery as a backdrop.
  — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2022
• Any attack on the refineries would pose a large threat to Iran’s most profitable industry.
  — Keely Bastow, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 1 Sep. 2024
• Much of that comes from oil and gas entering and leaving the refineries that cluster around Houston.
  — Xander Peters, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2024
• The goal is to avoid sudden increases in gas prices when refineries go offline for maintenance.
  — L'oreal Thompson Payton, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2024
• If one refinery goes offline for unplanned maintenance, the supply of fuel is suddenly reduced.
  — Robert Rapier, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024