How to Use diesel in a Sentence

diesel

noun

• Does your car take diesel or gasoline?
• The air smelled of diesel smoke, and the passengers sat cheek-by-jowl.
  — Marcia Desanctis, Travel + Leisure, 14 July 2023
• The AfD is the party that speaks to those wanting to stick to diesel cars and gas boilers.
  — Joseph De Weck, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2024
• Instead of diesel, the engine burns methanol, at a rate of three gallons a minute.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
• At the same time prices of diesel are soaring, farmers are burning more of it.
  — Evan Halper, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2022
• The law envisions a total ban on the sale of new diesel and gasoline cars by 2035.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 24 Mar. 2023
• The district hauled out a diesel generator that ran for hours while the bus charged.
  — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023
• New drilling permits had been in the works for a while, and the Tories haven’t nixed their commitment to end the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 10 Aug. 2023
• The district fell back on their diesel vehicles to get students to class that week.
  — Hannah Poukish, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2024
• Katie’s car is a vintage Benz, a diesel, and its engine chugs loudly.
  — Edan Lepucki, The Atlantic, 12 July 2024
• And a truck on a — with a large tank, large gasoline or diesel capacity, can go up to 2,000 miles.
  — NBC News, 17 Sep. 2023
• Portable gas heaters run on propane, kerosene, or diesel.
  — Nor'adila Hepburn, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 June 2024
• Rice is becoming harder to find in Haiti and diesel costs about $25 a gallon, Wine said.
  — Erika Angulo, NBC News, 4 Mar. 2024
• Yes, the peppy little inline-five diesel purrs to life easily on the first crank.
  — Michael Van Runkle, Robb Report, 14 Feb. 2024
• The engine is a 13 L diesel with two-stage turbocharging and a 13-speed transmission.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2023
• Gas stations ran out of diesel, meaning snowplows couldn’t clear roads as more snow falls.
  — Amy Delaura, Washington Examiner, 16 Jan. 2023
• The trains can operate on either straight-up diesel or biodiesel made from rape seed oil, and there are about 500 of them in service.
  — New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2024
• Wood Mackenzie’s estimates, the price of a barrel of diesel will average $40 for the first three months of this year.
  — Anna Cooban, CNN, 17 Jan. 2023
• Running a diesel generator cart results in a lot of waste heat and noise.
  — Robin Warner, Ars Technica, 25 Jan. 2024
• Over the last two decades, the state has spent or allocated $1.2 billion to clean its aging diesel school bus fleet.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2024
• But with an inferno on one side and treacherous waves, spilled diesel and a reef on the other, there are fears that the sea was no safe place.
  — Bill Weir, CNN, 11 Aug. 2023
• In response, Europe and the UK have sought diesel supplies from other markets.
  — Prejula Prem, Fortune Europe, 28 Nov. 2023
• Electric cars are now cheaper than gas or diesel over their lifetime and will soon be just as cheap to buy upfront.
  — WIRED, 15 Nov. 2023
• Miguel and Rufino Garcia Rivera, 28 and 36, collapsed on the floor of a desert greenhouse not far away that reeked of diesel and pesticide fumes.
  — Paige St. John and Marisa Gerber, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Jan. 2023
• The regulations have triggered a run on diesel rigs as carriers add to their fleets ahead of the Jan. 1 bar against new diesel trucks at ports.
  — Paul Berger, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2023
• The agency would also like to transition the state’s transit bus fleet from diesel to electric.
  — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 2 Jan. 2024
• The rear of the van is where the couple work, sleep, watch television, and store various larger items, from winter gear to a diesel heater.
  — Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 9 Feb. 2023
• An ice cream truck parks at the entrance to the park, right near our apartment, for 12 hours a day, with a diesel generator running the entire time.
  — Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2023
• Instead of tank farms, Channahon will wind up with 2-mile-long trains, vast warehouses and swarms of diesel trucks.
  — John Lippert, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2024
• There's also been a run on diesel generators as backup power.
  — Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 7 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024