diesel fuel
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Loud trucks kept passing and honking their horns, leaving a smell of burning diesel fuel in their wake.
From Slate • May 29, 2026
“At every stage, someone on a tractor or someone in a truck had to do something, and that is diesel. And diesel fuel is way up.”
From Salon • Apr. 24, 2026
Prices for diesel fuel and finished motor gasoline were both up sharply, buoyed by the steep rise in crude energy products.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
Fakhreddine said they "stored some food supplies and diesel fuel for electricity generators, as a precaution in case, God forbid, the war returns again."
From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026
The smell of diesel fuel hung faintly over the river.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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