How to Use refuel in a Sentence

refuel

verb
  • The crew refueled the airplane.
  • The airplane landed to refuel.
  • Younger bucks are wiped out at this point in the runt and need to refuel.
    — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Planes land, refuel and take off again in a matter of hours.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The base houses long-range flight tankers that serve to refuel bombers in the air.
    — Jamey Keaten, Chicago Tribune, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Go for a dip in the pool at the base of the cascade and refuel with a picnic lunch.
    — National Geographic, 12 June 2019
  • This means the next Dublin flight requires less time to refuel.
    — Ramsey Qubein, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Along the way, pilots made nightly stops to eat, sleep and refuel.
    — Michael O’Donnell, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Each bus is stocked with food and water and makes stops along the trip to refuel and switch drivers.
    — USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Nurture your space, trusting this calm to refuel your soul.
    — Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2026
  • And, finally, there’s a gas man, who refuels the car.
    — Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The women got back to the skiff, refueled and headed out into the night.
    — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 11 Aug. 2023
  • All of these moves come as the brand looks to refuel excitement across the business.
    — Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • They were accompanied by air tankers used to refuel planes while in flight.
    — Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 21 Feb. 2026
  • No one has refueled a spacecraft so far from Earth before.
    — Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The moves comes as the brand looks to refuel excitement across the business.
    — Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The moves comes as the brand looks to refuel excitement across the business.
    — Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Butay did agree to allow the ships to dock, refuel and restock.
    — Christina Carrega, ABC News, 19 Mar. 2020
  • Their plane left Wednesday but had to change course and refuel twice because of storms.
    — Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2020
  • How can missions to Mars refuel on the red planet?
    — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Dec. 2025
  • But last year the couple began to have to wait in line, sometimes for more than hour, to refuel their car.
    — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 25 Feb. 2024
  • While the saildrone can work for months, those ships have to return to shore more often to refuel and pick up food.
    — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2023
  • The robot will use a mechanical arm to catch hold of it and refuel it, mid-air.
    — Kurt Kleiner, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Mar. 2022
  • Both vehicles need to be refueled in space in order to fly to the Moon.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Hydrogen only works if there are enough places to refuel.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Think of it like taking regular pit stops during a long drive to refuel.
    — Big Think, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The plane noted its coordinates, but then had to leave the area to refuel.
    — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 27 July 2023
  • Every day spent between refueling flights is a day that more fuel is lost.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Once the players have refuelled, other staff are allowed in.
    — Nick Miller, New York Times, 6 June 2026
  • The jet plane had just been refueled with 480 pounds of fuel, Deal said.
    — Jake Hutchison, The Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2019

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