Sentence examples for like a refinery from inspiring English sources

At night, the whole thing glows beautifully, like a refinery in the mist.

In other words, Descottes says, "we didn't want it to look like a refinery".

The residents of a Scottish town where a Texas oil baron would like to build a refinery want to sell the town; they do not "foil the attempts" of the oil baron to build the refinery.

Ms. Louden said the machine was designed for industrial applications, like mapping a refinery so that an oil company could figure out where to install new pipes.

Without a trade pact, Japanese companies cannot bid for government contracts, like a $1.6 billion refinery modernization project.

It's like a chemical refinery for coal".

But Fluor was able to offset a shrinking backlog with new business like a major refinery upgrade in Russia.

I love the fact that it looks like an oil refinery.

The bare steel frames of Xanadu were lit by large halogen lights, making the complex look like an oil refinery.

A  century later, the president of the French Republic, Georges Pompidou imagined a Paris of tall towers (to him, the spires of Notre-Dame were too short) made of high-tensile steel, along with a modern museum that would look like an oil refinery.

"The way safety is measured is generally around worker injuries and days away from work, and that measure of safety is irrelevant when you are looking at the likelihood that a facility like an oil refinery could explode," said David Michaels, assistant secretary of labor for occupational safety and health.