Sentence examples for petrol has been from inspiring English sources

The petrol has been broken down and will not soon be reconstituted.

Petrol has been one of the in/out debate's many price battlegrounds.

Libya, too, has been surprisingly bold for a country where petrol has been cheaper than water for a generation.

For most of the last three years oil has hovered around $100 a barrel, and the price of petrol has been correspondingly flat.

A violent offender who doused his victims in petrol has been sentenced to life in prison for a string of violent and sexual assaults.

E85, a fuel containing 85 per cent renewable bioethanol and 15 per cent unleaded petrol, has been available in the UK for a couple of years now.

Falling prices for things like petrol have been "unambiguously good" for consumers, in the words of Mark Carney, the governor of the Bank of England.

In the past two quarters, Tesco's like-for-like sales in the UK, excluding petrol, have been minus 3.7% followed by minus 5.4%.

I recently took my car to a petrol station and was pleasantly surprised to find that the price of premium-grade petrol had been reduced from 90 halala to 60 halala per litre.

Although his wife is also working, both have long, expensive commutes, and there was little left from his £1,700 monthly take-home pay after the £650 rent and £600 petrol had been paid.

Aviation experts in Paris have suggested that the fact that a long slick of petrol had been found on the water would indicate that the plane broke up but did not explode in mid-flight.