How to Use gallon in a Sentence

gallon

noun

• In gasoline cars, our unit of energy was the gallon of fuel.
  — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
• Since last week, the price in the state fell to an average of $3.07 per gallon.
  — Nour Rahal, Detroit Free Press, 19 Dec. 2022
• Prices kept climbing into June, when that figure crested $5 a gallon.
  — Car and Driver, 26 Dec. 2022
• The cost of eggs has run everyone afoul, restaurant owners included, with a dozen pricing out the cost of a gallon of gas.
  — Lauryn Azu, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2023
• Gas mileage averages are 20 miles per gallon in city driving, 28 mpg on the highway.
  — James Raia, The Mercury News, 1 Sep. 2024
• Across Oregon, prices dipped below the $4 a gallon threshold earlier this month and hit $3.82 this week.
  — oregonlive, 20 Dec. 2022
• The national average price of a gallon of gas was $3.27 on Wednesday, far below the $5 peak in mid-June.
  — Christopher Rugaber, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Jan. 2023
• Kansas City and Houston, at $2.99 per gallon, had the nation’s least expensive average pump prices.
  — Diego Mendoza-Moyers, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Jan. 2023
• The Treasury Department estimates that release of oil from the emergency stockpile lowered prices at the pump by up to 40 cents per gallon.
  — CBS News, 27 Jan. 2023
• In April, the industry’s share of the price of a gallon of gas was $1.66.
  — Kristin J. Bender, The Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2024
• The restaurant goes through 10 gallons of the mild beef-and-bean chili every day.
  — Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2024
• The answer wasn’t so much a word as a growl and maybe a gallon of green, sticky vomit.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2023
• The east Valley led the list, with a change of more than 30 cents per gallon since last Wednesday.
  — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 17 Aug. 2023
• Gas taxes will be hiked by as much as five cents a gallon over the next four years.
  — The Editors, National Review, 31 May 2023
• The West and Hawaii are the places where the average price of a gallon of regular gas is over $4.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 26 May 2023
• That works out to 35 grams of salt per liter of water, or half a cup per gallon in home-cook terms.
  — Julia Moskin, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2024
• That's at least 240 gallons according to the back of the envelope.
  — Molly Robey, Washington Post, 11 June 2023
• Add to each gallon of mix a half tablespoon of dolomitic lime.
  — Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 20 July 2024
• Mix ⅓ cup bleach per gallon of water, spray or mop it on, then scrub.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
• Since oil prices are linked to gasoline prices, the price for a gallon of gas is expected to rise.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2023
• That’s potentially a lot of getting around for less than the cost of a gallon of gas.
  — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 4 Sep. 2023
• Prices in the Miami area are 3.5 cents per gallon higher than a month ago.
  — Miami Herald Archives Update, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2024
• Prices in the Miami area are 10.3 cents per gallon lower than a month ago.
  — Miami Herald Consumer Team, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2024
• To make your own DE mixture, blend ½ gallon of water with 1 cup of DE powder.
  — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Aug. 2024
• Each ship that goes through the canal uses about 55 million gallons of water, most of which then gets flushed out to sea as the ship makes its way through the canal.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 30 Aug. 2023
• But for Arizona drivers, $4 a gallon would be a summer dream come true.
  — Kris Van Cleave, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2023
• Size Matters Start with plants that are 1 gallon or smaller.
  — Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023
• One hundred and ninety-eight gallons of mole sauce will be made for the chicken, every night.
  — Matt Richtel David Williams, New York Times, 6 June 2023
• That figure was the highest in the country, topping runnerup Hawaii by 69 cents a gallon.
  — David Lightman, Sacramento Bee, 11 Apr. 2024
• The system yields about 320 gallons of cleaner water, which is roughly about three months of use.
  — Nor'adila Hepburn, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 May 2023

Last Updated: 28 Sep 2024