How to Use refinery in a Sentence

refinery

noun
  • And oil wells and refineries can’t be turned back on overnight.
    — John Cassidy, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
  • That’s the same part of the refinery that caught fire last week.
    — Calmatters, Mercury News, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Yeah, well, our school was right in the middle of the refinery.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2024
  • From there, it’s piped to refineries around the country.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 12 June 2026
  • The refinery is one of the country’s largest.
    — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
  • An oil refinery was hit for a second time and pictures showed it on fire.
    — Charlene Gubash, NBC news, 30 Mar. 2026
  • My friends at the refinery lost fingers, limbs, had their skin burn off, and some lost their lives.
    — Dallas Morning News, 3 Feb. 2026
  • It’s then processed and sold to refineries.
    — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 19 Sep. 2025
  • It’s then processed and sold to refineries.
    — Nick Ferraro, Boston Herald, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Tanks are an outsize source of fumes at a refinery, researchers have found.
    — Ingrid Lobet, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Also not on the list is state control over refineries.
    — Paasha Mahdavi, Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2026
  • And a new refinery hasn’t been built in this country for more than 40 years.
    — Michael E. Kanell, ajc, 7 June 2022
  • Sobyanin later said that the fire at the refinery had largely been put out and that no one was hurt.
    — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 18 June 2026
  • His parents live near the refinery.
    — Jasmine Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Two of the drones struck the refinery, the military said.
    — CBS News, 21 Mar. 2026
  • At least some parts of the refinery were protected.
    — David Hambling, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • This is the second fire at a BP oil refinery in less than a month.
    — Ronn Blitzer, Fox News, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The company also says oil prices would rise and refineries would be put at risk.
    — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 11 July 2024
  • In contrast, most gold bars come from private refineries.
    — Sharon Wu, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2026
  • At least two refineries were set on fire by drone attacks or falling debris.
    — Npr Staff, NPR, 3 Apr. 2026
  • No estimate for how much oil might have spilled from the refinery has yet been made public.
    — CBS News, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Both countries have bombed each other’s oil refineries in the early days of the war.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 18 June 2025
  • Video showed flames on a large refinery tank with thick black smoke that was quickly extinguished.
    — Charlene Gubash, NBC news, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Though the pace of such attacks has slowed, Iran hit a Kuwaiti refinery.
    — Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The longer-term story is about refinery resilience.
    — Gregory Shahnovsky, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • Hours later, at least one tank at the refinery was still burning, Snow said.
    — Hanna Park, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
  • No refinery can optimize its way around a closed shipping lane.
    — Gregory Shahnovsky, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • Some refineries have not shipped gasoline for weeks, and the problem is spreading.
    — David Hambling, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Among the targets, Bessent wrote on X, were teapot refineries.
    — Anthony Di Paola, Fortune, 2 May 2026
  • The pier is used to import cars and for delivery of oil to the Valero refinery.
    — Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Apr. 2022

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'refinery.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: