How to Use fuel oil in a Sentence

fuel oil

noun
Definition of fuel oilnext
  • But response crews have voiced concerns about the looming fate of the heavy fuel oil or bunker fuel that powered the tanker.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 16 Jan. 2018
  • If spilled, heavy fuel oil would remain for long periods and could spread widely if entrained in moving ice.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 16 Jan. 2018
  • The United States also agreed to sell North Korea some fuel oil.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 9 Mar. 2018
  • The plant switched to natural gas in the 1980s, but continued to use fuel oil as a backup for years.
    — Phil Diehl, sandiegouniontribune.com, 24 Jan. 2018
  • Nearly half used natural gas and almost 40 percent relied on fuel oil.
    — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Feb. 2018
  • One concern is that, since the Sanchi sank, marine life will be endangered by the fuel oil’s spreading instead of burning off.
    — Gerry Mullany, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2018
  • Some 3,000 gallons of the oil, thick and viscous Bunker C or heavy fuel oil, was contained in a rubber tank.
    — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Feb. 2018
  • The saving grace for petroleum products is that distillate fuel oil stocks fell by 1.4 million barrels.
    — Jordan Blum, Houston Chronicle, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Gasoline stocks dipped by 2 million barrels last week, while distillate fuel oils - used to make diesel and heating oils - also fell by nearly 2 million barrels.
    — Jordan Blum, Houston Chronicle, 31 Jan. 2018
  • China's calamity highlights efforts underway to prevent heavy fuel oil spills in other sensitive, but far more challenging waters.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Prices rose the fastest for fuel oil , a change of 68.77% from prices a year ago this month.
    — Nick Timiraos, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The pot would be filled with a fuel oil such as kerosene and the rod would be placed inside so the pumice could soak up the fuel.
    — oregonlive, 1 Feb. 2020
  • About 550 gallons of fuel oil was recovered at the site of the spill with suction pumps.
    — Eula Calahan, Arkansas Online, 18 July 2023
  • Distillates are used to make diesel and some fuel oils and heating oils.
    — Jordan Blum, Houston Chronicle, 11 July 2018
  • The ship was carrying nearly 300 tons of heavy fuel oil at the time of the incident, the ship's owner said.
    — NBC News, 2 June 2021
  • Gas prices are up 50 percent year-on-year, while fuel oil prices are up 59 percent.
    — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 11 Nov. 2021
  • The fuel oil portion of the consumer price index nearly doubled from the same time last year.
    — Arkansas Online, 20 July 2022
  • A decade ago, the cruise line ditched heavy fuel oil in favor of cleaner-burning marine gas oil.
    — Christopher Elliott, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2022
  • At the border in Ivangorod, spikes of barbed wire pierced the azure sky and smoke from burning fuel oil rose from the chimneys of the customs building.
    — Vadim Smyslov, WIRED, 21 Feb. 2024
  • On an average global route, each sail can save up to 1.5 tons of heavy fuel oil (HFO) per day.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 24 Aug. 2023
  • If that happens, doing away with fossil heavy fuel oil may not be such a heavy lift.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2022
  • The power company is required to buy only high-grade fuel oil, the board said.
    — Danica Coto, SFChronicle.com, 1 July 2019
  • But that’s small fries compared with the price of energy, which soared 27%, driven by the rising cost of fuel oil and home heating.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, courant.com, 17 Feb. 2022
  • The biggest challenge for the shipping industry is moving away from heavy fuel oil, a type of diesel used by most of the world's tankers and cargo ships.
    — Natalie Croker, CNN, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Nearly all of it is enabled by burning heavy fuel oil, but that is beginning to change.
    — Cara Buckley, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2023
  • In the early 20th century, most of the U.S. Navy’s big warships used coal, not fuel oil, to heat their boilers and provide power.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The biggest increase of all categories and energy types was fuel oil (used to heat homes) at 59.1%.
    — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Most ships, especially the big ones that do the heavy hauling, burn what’s called high-sulfur fuel oil, or bunker fuel.
    — Wired, 23 Sep. 2019
  • The price of energy has surged 26% over the last year, sharply increasing the cost of gasoline, fuel oil and natural gas for home heating.
    — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The first is that New England states burn billions of gallons of fuel oil because new natural gas pipelines have been shut out of these states.
    — Ed Hirs, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024

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