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UK
/pˈɛtɹəl/
]
[ US /ˈpɛtɹoʊɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈpɛtɹoʊɫ/ ]
NOUN
- a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines
How To Use petrol In A Sentence
- We carried spare water for the rad, a hand pump just in case the Dunlop pressure dropped, and maybe even a canister of petrol.
- Along with petroleum, the most important new source of energy was electricity.
- They say that simply flushing out rogue unleaded petrol is sufficient. The Sun
- He expanded this idea to the propose the ‘deep, hot biosphere’ which both generates methane and adds biogenic signatures to inorganic petroleum, and that part, at least, is looking more correct every year.
- Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) would make a decision on whether to boost output to calm minister said on Tuesday he sees no push by OPEC members to raise oil output to counter a spike in prices to 18-month highs. WN.com - Business News
- Their bodies were then doused with petrol and burned in a garden. The Sun
- The amount of petrol a car uses is relative to its speed.
- A petrol tank containing high-octane fuel is beside your seat.
- ‘Unfortunately, Bulgarian coal is lignite, we have no anthracite, no petrol or gas,’ he said.
- Known as chemurgy, the science lost much of its ‘reason for being’ after WWII when the petroleum industry redirected its attention from the war effort to commercial products.