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Sentence count:244+32Posted:2017-02-15Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: gasgasolenegasolineSimilar words: petroleumperpetratepatrolcontrolmetropolisvictrolametropolitancomptrollerMeaning: ['petrəl]  n. a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines. 
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151. You'd better get petrol here where we're going is the last outpost of civilization.
152. We've run out of petrol. Worse still, we can't get any more until tomorrow.
153. Service stations use petrol as a bait to lure motorists into the restaurants and other facilities.
154. They were cheap and nasty watches, the kind you see on special offer in petrol stations.
155. There are already long queues of vehicles at petrol pumps.
156. The price of petrol will rise by 5p a gallon from tomorrow.
157. I've heard that ten pence a gallon is coming off the price of petrol.
158. They hurled abuse at their victim as they doused him with petrol.
159. The driver stopped the car at the petrol station to refuel.
160. A car will come to a grinding halt if you put water in the petrol tank.
161. We ran out of petrol on the way home, but as luck would have it, we were very near a garage.
162. I need to fill up with petrol before we go.
163. The amount of petrol a car uses is relative to its speed.
164. A tankful of petrol wouldn't come amiss.
165. The protesters were armed with rocks and petrol bombs.
166. More of the reeking petrol was doused over him.
167. Extracts from both petrol and diesel exhausts contain carcinogens.
168. We have a special petrol allowance for that.
169. The police used armoured vehicles and tear gas to contain the protesters who were armed with rocks and petrol bombs.
170. Several petrol stations and a building society in the town have already installed the equipment.
171. Petrol is nearly nonexistent too: deliveries are made in dray carts.
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172. Another Epworth resident was burned alive a few days earlier when a petrol bomb was thrown into his home.
173. Under an EC directive unleaded petrol must be made available throughout Britain.
174. Does the Land Rover petrol engine have a reputation for inadequate cooling when operated in tropical climates?
175. Londoner Richard Tompkins worked as a petrol pump attendant before starting the stamp company in 1956.
176. What notes were these anyway banged out on a pan, petrol drums forged into spinets and harpsichords?
177. They offer a way to substitute local wood and charcoal for expensive imported diesel and petrol.
178. But ten days later he returned to the same Thornaby service station, filled up with petrol and then paid by cheque.
179. Much oil and petrol is unloaded at docks along the canal, particularly for a petrochemical works at Carrington.
180. At least that was the case in Britain, where the gap between petrol and diesel fuel prices has always been small.
More similar words: petroleumperpetratepatrolcontrolmetropolisvictrolametropolitancomptrollerretrospectiveretroactivelyretrospectiontake controlout of controlunder controlcontrol groupelectrolysisbeyond controluncontrollablepetpettycompetecarpetmetricpeter outpettishimpetusget readycome trueretractget rid of
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