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Synonyms

filling station

American  

noun

  1. service station.

filling station British  

noun

  1. a place where petrol and other supplies for motorists are sold

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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

The fuel leak is from a petrol filling station owned by Asda, which said it inherited the problem when it bought the site.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2024

He has kept the Model A parked inside the filling station for about 15 years.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2024

One day that September, the undercover operative who was pretending to be an insurance salesman stopped at a filling station in Fairfax and struck up a conversation with a woman working there.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

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