How to Use gas in a Sentence

gas

1 of 2 noun
  • The car gets good gas mileage.
  • The car almost ran out of gas.
  • We heat our house with gas.
  • He was driving with one foot on the gas and one foot on the brake.
  • Do you have a gas stove or an electric one?
  • Carbon monoxide is a poisonous gas.
  • Make sure your gas tank is full.
    — Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Make sure your gas tank is full.
    — Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Make sure your gas tank is full.
    — Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Make sure your gas tank is full.
    — Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Make sure your gas tank is full.
    — Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Make sure your gas tank is full.
    — Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Make sure your gas tank is full.
    — Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Make sure your gas tank is full.
    — Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Make sure your gas tank is full.
    — Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Make sure your gas tank is full.
    — Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Make sure your gas tank is full.
    — Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Make sure your gas tank is full.
    — Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 11 Oct. 2025
  • And that’s with low gas prices.
    — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
  • There were no signs of gas lines.
    — Bassem Mroue, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2026
  • This saves you on your gas bill, too.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Overnight, gas prices jumped more than nine cents.
    — Michael Loria, USA Today, 2 May 2026
  • Over time, the disk can lose much of its gas.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Her hunch was that the cause of the deaths was a gas leak.
    — Joy Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Start by filling it up with gas.
    — Matt Schooley, CBS News, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Art-Net nodes cost less than a tank of gas.
    — Bob Bonniol, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Neither were oil or gas tankers.
    — Steve Kopack, NBC news, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Here are the steps to start saving on gas.
    — Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The trend isn’t driven by gas prices alone.
    — Carlie Procell, USA Today, 9 May 2026
  • For a gas grill, leave one or two burners off.
    — Joe Sevier, Bon Appetit Magazine, 26 June 2026

gas

2 of 2 verb
  • We stopped to gas the car.
  • The fighters gas out in the first round.
    — Matthew Shen Goodman, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
  • But one used a slur to refer to Jews and said they should be gassed.
    — Georgia Wells, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2018
  • The two men, leaving it all on the line, were gassed in the middle of the ring.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 31 May 2026
  • He was gassed at the end of a shift lasting 1 minute 2 seconds.
    — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2019
  • But the rest had to gas up their cars and join the long lines snaking on roads toward the borders.
    — Dasha Litvinova, ajc, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Pastor Beebe, who is eight years my senior, looks as gassed as me.
    — Ted Katauskas, Outside, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Gobert showed you how gassed Jokic was.
    — Charley Walters, Twin Cities, 2 May 2026
  • Moore had been gassed at Cambrai, one of the few survivors of his unit.
    — Hazlitt, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Amanda wasn't afraid to gas up her husband-to-be at the time, either.
    — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Both Halep and Cahill thought Stephens looked a little gassed.
    — Howard Fendrich, The Seattle Times, 9 June 2018
  • Leonard scored only one point, looking gassed along with his teammates in their third straight game.
    — Greg Beacham, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2026
  • With inescapable synths and a club-ready beat, Melanie calls for her fans to gas themselves up.
    — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 6 Nov. 2019
  • The Bears were gassed after the midway point of the fourth quarter.
    — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 16 Sep. 2019
  • The clock struck three and the Internet Nazis trolls gassed the rest of them.
    — Ellen J. Kennedy, Twin Cities, 1 Dec. 2019
  • At the time, Melville could already gas his fastball up to 95 mph.
    — Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 1 Sep. 2019
  • Garcia was gassed, mid weight cut, after 12 rounds of hard sparring in his boots.
    — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2023
  • When will gas drop under $2 on average?
    — Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Dec. 2025
  • Your brother should at the very least always return the car gassed up (that’s what anyone should do).
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Curry Barker is gassing up his chainsaw.
    — Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 21 Apr. 2026
  • With his skaters in front of him all gassed, Swayman stoned Finnie from eight feet in front in the slot.
    — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Bashar al-Assad has bombed, gassed and starved his enemies out of the biggest cities.
    — The Economist, 30 June 2018
  • Siena looked gassed down the stretch, as Duke went on a 15-4 run to take the lead and close-out the game.
    — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The person who sees football as a medium through which to gas up their mates; nothing more, nothing less.
    — SI.com, 19 Feb. 2018
  • The Dodgers look gassed, and their bullpen is a science experiment.
    — Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Romano threw 97 pitches and left for a pinch-hitter, not because he was gassed.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Meanwhile, the Assad regime was bombing and gassing civilians.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Only problem was, his best players had been on the ice for a while and looked absolutely gassed as well.
    — Josh Yohe, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Either way, someone has to gas up the car, drive it, navigate every turn and keep the car from crashing.
    — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 7 Dec. 2025
  • That strategy may have come back to hurt them in the end because players looked gassed midway through the second half.
    — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 19 Mar. 2026

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