How to Use fuel oil in a Sentence

fuel oil

noun

• Prices rose the fastest for fuel oil , a change of 68.77% from prices a year ago this month.
  — Nick Timiraos, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2022
• 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
• About 550 gallons of fuel oil was recovered at the site of the spill with suction pumps.
  — Eula Calahan, Arkansas Online, 18 July 2023
• Distillates are used to make diesel and some fuel oils and heating oils.
  — Jordan Blum, Houston Chronicle, 11 July 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
• Gas prices are up 50 percent year-on-year, while fuel oil prices are up 59 percent.
  — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 11 Nov. 2021
• The fuel oil portion of the consumer price index nearly doubled from the same time last year.
  — Arkansas Online, 20 July 2022
• A decade ago, the cruise line ditched heavy fuel oil in favor of cleaner-burning marine gas oil.
  — Christopher Elliott, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2022
• On an average global route, each sail can save up to 1.5 tons of heavy fuel oil (HFO) per day.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 24 Aug. 2023
• 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
• The power company is required to buy only high-grade fuel oil, the board said.
  — Danica Coto, SFChronicle.com, 1 July 2019
• 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
• 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
• In the early 20th century, most of the U.S. Navy’s big warships used coal, not fuel oil, to heat their boilers and provide power.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 27 Feb. 2023
• The biggest increase of all categories and energy types was fuel oil (used to heat homes) at 59.1%.
  — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 11 Nov. 2021
• 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 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 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
• 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
• Supplies of propane, propylene, residual fuel oil and other oils all dipped as well.
  — Jordan Blum, Houston Chronicle, 17 Oct. 2019
• The two caps, one on high-value oil products such as diesel and the other on low-value products such as fuel oil, come in addition to the West’s cap on Russian crude.
  — Laurence Norman, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2023
• The finale of the fish boil happened when Peterson poured a No. 1 fuel oil on the flames under the kettle, causing the entire kettle to become engulfed in a ball of fire.
  — Mike De Sisti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 June 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
• The first bill López Obrador sent to Congress this year would mandate that the first power to be used on national grids would have to be from government plants, many of which burn coal or fuel oil.
  — Christopher Sherman, Star Tribune, 4 Feb. 2021
• By banning the use of sulfur-heavy fuel oil, the rule intended to reduce pollutants that contribute to acid rain and smog.
  — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 13 May 2021
• Most of the power plants on today’s ships are based on internal combustion engines that use cheap heavy fuel oil.
  — Jing Sun, The Conversation, 11 June 2021
• Cuban heavy crude, as well as fuel oil and diesel stored in Matanzas in 10 huge tanks, are mainly used to generate electricity on the island.
  — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 10 Aug. 2022
• Katuwawala said that fear now extends to the fuel oil and other potentially hazardous substances aboard the sinking ship.
  — Washington Post, 2 June 2021
• Much of that fuel oil once went to the United States, where Gulf Coast refineries processed it into gasoline, diesel and other fuels.
  — Clifford Krauss, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
• Energy prices fell by 0.6%, pushed down in particular by an 8% decrease in the prices of both fuel oil and utility gas.
  — Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024