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 tiny, unincorporated community near the filling station is also named Blackwell’s Corner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
At a filling station they told him that the tent was not up yet, but that the show cars were on a siding at the station.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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