filling station
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Outside the gates of one closed filling station, dozens of motorbike riders still queued expectantly.
From Barron's ● Mar. 4, 2026
Sadly, Sang’s was no more, so I settled for a Subway sandwich from a filling station.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
However, the country manager of Taqa Arabia, an Egyptian company that runs the filling station near the airport, sees the growing demand as a "positive sign that CNG use has started to develop in Tanzania".
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2025
The filling station stands at the treeless, windswept intersection of Highways 46 and 33, on the well-trodden path between the Central Coast and the San Joaquin Valley.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
This afternoon the town had been deserted except for the loafers who stood around the filling station and the street comers.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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