How to Use fuel oil in a Sentence

fuel oil

noun
  • Distillates are used to make diesel and some fuel oils and heating oils.
    — Jordan Blum, Houston Chronicle, 11 July 2018
  • 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
  • Black oils include crude oil, fuel oil, furnace oil, asphalt and tar.
    — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • The fuel oil portion of the consumer price index nearly doubled from the same time last year.
    — Arkansas Online, 20 July 2022
  • The power company is required to buy only high-grade fuel oil, the board said.
    — Danica Coto, SFChronicle.com, 1 July 2019
  • Gas prices are up 50 percent year-on-year, while fuel oil prices are up 59 percent.
    — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Thousands of tons of fuel oil with sand are in temporary storage areas.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Supplies of propane, propylene, residual fuel oil and other oils all dipped as well.
    — Jordan Blum, Houston Chronicle, 17 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • About 550 gallons of fuel oil was recovered at the site of the spill with suction pumps.
    — Eula Calahan, Arkansas Online, 18 July 2023
  • 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 United States also agreed to sell North Korea some fuel oil.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 9 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In New England, most homes are heated with fuel oil or natural gas, and gas or propane is used widely for cooking.
    — Katherine Blunt, WSJ, 31 July 2021
  • Ships anchored offshore used the 20-inch-diameter pipe to unload fuel oil for the power plant.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2019
  • With the Baiji refinery now offline, the Baiji power plant now has no supply of heavy fuel oil.
    — Andrew Shaver, Foreign Affairs, 23 Oct. 2015
  • 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
  • The average price of very low-sulfur fuel oil has risen 70% to $925 per metric ton at the world’s top ports since the war started.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2026
  • The ban on Russian oil includes straight-run fuel oil, a feedstock used to replace heavy crude that’s similar to what Ecuador produces.
    — Lucia Kassai, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • But other benefits that were once touted as part of the push for more natural gas — such as ending the reliance on fuel oil to heat homes and businesses — have not come to fruition.
    — John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 11 June 2026

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