gasolene
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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You had a line of gasolene running from one bank to the next.
From The Guardian • Mar. 21, 2010
That report charged that the Standard Oil Co. still exercised a monopoly and took huge profits, and predicted that the price of gasolene would rise to one dollar a gallon.
From Time Magazine Archive
Still, the nickeled sprinklers that flung glistening showers across the smooth grass, and the big gasolene mower, belonged to her world, in which Nature was kept in her place by civilized art.
From The Coast of Adventure by Bindloss, Harold
The odors of city and civilization seemed very far away: gasolene, paint, smoke, perfumery, leather—all these could hardly be recalled.
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane
Turning on the switch and gasolene he began to “spin” the fly wheel; but beyond a wheezy cough the motor gave no sign of responding.
From The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune by Goldfrap, John Henry
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