How to Use refuel in a Sentence
refuel
verb- The crew refueled the airplane.
- The airplane landed to refuel.
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Younger bucks are wiped out at this point in the runt and need to refuel.
— Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 22 Nov. 2023 -
The base houses long-range flight tankers that serve to refuel bombers in the air.
— Jamey Keaten, Chicago Tribune, 5 Dec. 2022 -
Go for a dip in the pool at the base of the cascade and refuel with a picnic lunch.
— National Geographic, 12 June 2019 -
All but two must be refueled before the end of the year.
— Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 3 Apr. 2020 -
This simple boiled egg hit the sweet spot and refueled me, in the best way.
— Lorraine Allen, Good Housekeeping, 20 Dec. 2018 -
Now my next test is to refuel and get a good night’s sleep.
— cleveland, 12 Mar. 2022 -
If the kids need to refuel, there’s a snack bar onsite.
— oregonlive, 5 July 2021 -
The women got back to the skiff, refueled and headed out into the night.
— Alaa Elassar, CNN, 11 Aug. 2023 -
The base houses long-range flight tankers that serve to refuel bombers in the air, according to the AP.
— Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2022 -
The jet plane had just been refueled with 480 pounds of fuel, Deal said.
— Jake Hutchison, The Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2019 -
The captain in charge of the C-130 aircraft taxied over, refueled, and came out and talked to us.
— Elizabeth Yuko, Rolling Stone, 12 June 2024 -
Last year in Sparta, his crew refueled the truck on the final pit stop of the race, but didn’t change tires.
— David J. Kim, The Courier-Journal, 10 July 2019 -
This means the next Dublin flight requires less time to refuel.
— Ramsey Qubein, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Oct. 2019 -
Each bus is stocked with food and water and makes stops along the trip to refuel and switch drivers.
— USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2023 -
The summit is the perfect place to soak in the accomplishment (and the views) and refuel for the descent with a tasty snack.
— Outside Online, 16 June 2022 -
More than 2,500 miles of ocean stretched between Lae and the remote spit of land that was their next stop to refuel.
— Alec Forssmann, National Geographic, 1 July 2019 -
Pro tip: be sure to stop by the aid station with water and electrolytes at the 1.5 mile mark to refuel.
— Sara Butler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2022 -
Along the way, pilots made nightly stops to eat, sleep and refuel.
— Michael O’Donnell, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022 -
The pilot did not refuel at the heliport, the source added.
— Greg Wallace and Brynn Gingras, CNN, 12 June 2019 -
Transatlantic flights may even need to reroute and refuel.
— Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 13 July 2023 -
The episode occurred after two U.S. Navy F-18s that had been on patrol near the base left to refuel.
— Gordon Lubold, WSJ, 17 June 2022 -
But last year the couple began to have to wait in line, sometimes for more than hour, to refuel their car.
— Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 25 Feb. 2024 -
There aren’t any airports equipped to refuel jets with it.
— Star Tribune, 5 Dec. 2020 -
That plane had a shorter range and had stopped to refuel in Cedar City, Utah, only for a snowstorm to strand the team there overnight.
— Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2024 -
Their plane left Wednesday but had to change course and refuel twice because of storms.
— Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2020 -
My favorite walk is around the Marais with a stop to refuel midday at Mariage Freres for tea.
— Elise Taylor, Vogue, 25 Feb. 2022 -
If the lakes form a network of rest areas along a vast migration route, the undistinguished flies stock the shelves, refueling birds on their journeys halfway across the world.
— Daniel Rothberg, Vox, 1 Oct. 2024 -
In other scenes, Perry played the role of a human-robot person putting a gas nozzle on her butt to refuel and riding in a monster truck with Paytas.
— Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2024
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