How to Use kerosene in a Sentence

kerosene

noun

• Roughly 85% of folks had ditched kerosene lamps by the end of the decade.
  — Stephen McBride, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2021
• There was the flicker of a kerosene light in the window.
  — Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2022
• Then three men doused him in kerosene and burned him alive.
  — James Forman Jr., The Atlantic, 3 Sep. 2017
• Soon the tents glowed with lantern light and whispered with the sound of kerosene stoves.
  — Neil Shea, National Geographic, 21 Aug. 2019
• The platform dipped and some of the kerosene spilled on my backside.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 21 Sep. 2020
• The Skenes sold kerosene to the Union Army and the railroad companies.
  — Nancy Stearns Theiss, The Courier-Journal, 29 Sep. 2017
• Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders raced to the wreck to spray firehoses of kerosene on the wreck.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 20 Feb. 2020
• But the story was a lit match, and the national mood at the time was kerosene.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2022
• Later, the birds are cleaned with a mixture of kerosene and cow dung ash.
  — National Geographic, 10 Sep. 2016
• The car has four headlights and one taillight, all of which run on kerosene.
  — David Krumboltz, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2017
• They were furnished with a can of kerosene oil and matches....
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Mar. 2021
• Japan’s imports of kerosene rose to a 14-year high last month due to cold weather.
  — Firat Kayakiran, Bloomberg.com, 19 Feb. 2018
• Rags burned, kerosene smudge, but smoke blended with clouds.
  — Amanda Schaffer, The New Yorker, 28 May 2016
• Three women and a man were stabbed and shot, their bodies then soaked in kerosene and set on fire.
  — William Lee, chicagotribune.com, 29 June 2018
• Prior to that, kerosene lanterns were the primary source of evening light.
  — Daniel Lin, National Geographic, 23 Feb. 2017
• Guests can expect gas lights and kerosene lanterns, a wood stove, and a porch overlooking the lake.
  — Hilary Nangle, Travel + Leisure, 4 July 2023
• Each evening, with the aid of a kerosene lamp, his great grandfather read passages from the Bible out loud, in Swedish.
  — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 5 Jan. 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
• At the end of the killing video, Mr. Raigar sprinkles kerosene on Mr. Afrajul’s body, sets it on fire and calmly walks away.
  — Jeffrey Gettleman and Suhasini Raj, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2017
• If Obama lit the match, Sanders, as part of his primary bid, doused it in kerosene.
  — Adam Harris, The Atlantic, 5 June 2019
• Failing to light the gasoline with a long gauze fuse, the vandals tossed a kerosene torch through a porch window.
  — Kori Rumore, chicagotribune.com, 24 Feb. 2022
• In the mid-1800s, scientists began to distill oil for kerosene in lamps.
  — Grant Segall, cleveland.com, 17 Sep. 2017
• Gas, kerosene, and propane heaters are extremely flammable and should not be used indoors.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 28 Dec. 2021
• Like kerosene on a small blaze, this set off a conflagration.
  — Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post, 28 June 2019
• At night, Knott and her colleagues would gather around candles and kerosene lamps.
  — Wudan Yan, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2021
• The Fresnel lens first installed in it was lit by kerosene, but was electrified in 1934.
  — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 13 Feb. 2018
• In at least one instance, a Muslim boy was forced to drink kerosene and swallow a lighted match.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2019
• The offense arrived at exactly the right time as the Padres try to pile up enough runs to mask a bullpen too often full of kerosene.
  — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2020
• Nirvana went to Albini for a taste of his sonic kerosene on In Utero — a highlight of both their careers.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2024
• From crude oil, refiners first extract gasoline, kerosene and oil, and what remains at the bottom becomes the asphalt.
  — Mansour Solaimanian, The Conversation, 10 May 2024

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024