[ US /ˈfjuəɫ, ˈfjuɫ/ ]
[ UK /fjˈuːəl/ ]
VERB
  1. provide with fuel
    Oil fires the furnace
  2. take in fuel, as of a ship
    The tanker fueled in Bahrain
  3. stimulate
    fuel the debate on creationism
  4. provide with a combustible substance that provides energy
    fuel aircraft, ships, and cars
NOUN
  1. a substance that can be consumed to produce energy
    more fuel is needed during the winter months
    they developed alternative fuels for aircraft
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How To Use fuel In A Sentence

  • Their dried dung is found everywhere, and is in many places the only fuel afforded by the plains; their skulls, which last longer than any other part of the animal, are among the most familiar of objects to the plainsman; their bones are in many districts so plentiful that it has become a regular industry, followed by hundreds of men (christened "bone hunters" by the frontiersmen), to go out with wagons and collect them in great numbers for the sake of the phosphates they yield; and Bad Lands, plateaus, and prairies alike, are cut up in all directions by the deep ruts which were formerly buffalo trails. VIII. The Lordly Buffalo
  • Both groups are forced to suffer the prejudices that have been fuelled by the tabloids and absorbed by an uninformed public.
  • They were however a bit thirsty as far as fuel was concerned due to their 4 giant 4125 kilowatt motors, and never reached production.
  • A couple of coats of new antifouling paint may cost the equivalent of a couple tanks of gas, but you will keep saving money on fuel all season long.
  • There are no problems, either, in regard to fuels and lubricants, that is, in the refining industry. The Speech
  • With a full tank of fuel, the weight bias shifts rearwards slightly, which helps traction, as does the standard limited slip differential.
  • The fuel tanks are self-sealing, with a fuel crossfeed system that provides continuity of supply if one of the fuel circuits fails.
  • Aerogels had been largely forgotten when, in the late 1970s, the French government approached Stanislaus Teichner at Universite Claud Bernard, Lyon seeking a method for storing oxygen and rocket fuels in porous materials. A Real Spinoff that NASA Has Seemingly Forgotten About - NASA Watch
  • In the child's imagination, fuelled by science-fiction, the aliens are about to land.
  • Then the piston moves back up to compress this fuel/air mixture.
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