Sentence examples for oil up from inspiring English sources
verb
To lubricate with oil, to cover or smear with oil
March imports were 300.7 million barrels of oil, up from 247.1 million in February.
Gold has climbed around 6% for the quarter, with crude oil up around 4.5% amid growing tensions with Iran.
His rent and bills – heating oil, up 40% this year, is set to rise again in January – come to €400.
Meanwhile, the Europeans are anxiously looking at their economies (down) and at the price of oil (up).
The siphon, which has a tiny hole at the bulb end, draws the oil up from the carafe.
Soaring commodity prices (oil up by more than 90%, minerals and metals by about 70%, since 2000) have brought windfalls for oil-producers such as Angola and Nigeria.
In many instances it is the pressure of natural gas exerted upon the subterranean oil reservoir that provides the drive to force oil up to the surface.
Diathermic oil (up to 130 °C) is adopted as working fluid in order to supply heat to the ORC evaporator.
He focuses on statistics that show America is currently importing 70% of its oil, up from 24% in 1970.
An engineering firm just offered him £45,000-a-year and paid his relocation costs so he could do "something oil" up in Aberdeen.
Frankincense oil up-regulated several pro-apoptotic genes, including CDKN1A [ 39], DEDD2 [ 40], NUDT2 [ 41], SGK, TNFAIP3, and IER3 [ 42].
