Sentence examples for drops of fuel from inspiring English sources

This caused chaos at pumps, with drivers fighting over the last drops of fuel; some of them chanted anti-government slogans and set cars on fire.

In Tacloban, the capital of Leyte province, decaying bodies still line the streets and looters have taken to pillaging the city's few remaining drops of fuel.

On our way back, queues of cars trying to get what seems to be the last drops of fuel from Gas Stations stretched for several kilometers, partially jamming all major roads.

This means the boda unceremoniously dumps his bike on its left side, then opens the filler hatch and blows in it trying to force the last drops of fuel into the ramp of the fuel pump with the force of his lungs.

Frantically weaving the car back and forth to slosh the last drops of fuel into the pickup, he managed to keep it running just long enough to creep over the line and win the race (Prost commented after the race that when his car started running dry he immediately thought to himself "shit, I am going to lose this race again", referring to his 1985 disqualification at Imola).

"The guys had to make sure we got every drop of fuel in, and we lost a second," Andretti said.

More efficient internal-combustion engines will wring out mileage from every drop of fuel, and hybrid powertrains will combine an electric motor with a conventional engine.

Every gun, bullet and drop of fuel must be flown in from Uganda and then taken by river to Dongo, or wherever the next target may be.

Telemetry from the rocket indicated that a drop of fuel pressure led its computer to shut down the third-stage engine prematurely five and a half minutes into flight.

"If we do not produce a drop of fuel, in the end this system actually acts as an aquaculture filter", producing a steady source of protein, SBRC's Ríos said, in a country that imports about 90% of its food.

But in the north, on a recent 300-mile drive along the highway from the northern border down to the capital, Abuja, there was not a drop of fuel in any station.