Sentence examples for pool of gasoline from inspiring English sources

He told the Washington Post proudly, "It was like tossing a match on a pool of gasoline".

Mrs. Potts stepped out into a pool of gasoline and was soon engulfed in flames, which William beat out after rolling her on the ground.

Witnesses said that one vindictive looter whom officers tried to push away lit a match and threw it into a pool of gasoline.

In 1986, a year and a half after it first aired, Paul Taylor, a reporter at the Washington Post, quoted McCarthy speaking proudly of the ad, part of what Taylor called "one of political Washington's instant legends": "It was like tossing a match on a pool of gasoline," said Larry McCarthy of Ailes Communications, who wrote the ad.

Megan McCardle at The Atlantic sympathizes with the sentiment, but thinks the Fed had to act: Allowing [Bear Stearns] to fail would have been like throwing a hand grenade into a burning pool of gasoline; bankruptcy proceedings are time-consuming and uncertain.

"A typical gasoline car only has a thin metal sheet protecting the underbody, leaving it vulnerable to destruction of the fuel supply lines or fuel tank, which causes a pool of gasoline to form and often burn the entire car to the ground".

A10 Nigeria Struggles Against Fire Firefighters tried to douse burning pools of gasoline in southern Nigeria, struggling to extinguish a pipeline fire as villagers hastily buried charred bodies.

Firefighters tried to douse burning pools of gasoline today in southern Nigeria, struggling to extinguish a pipeline fire as villagers hastily buried charred bodies.

The mean optical thickness of gasoline pool fires is found to be 1.52 m−1.52

In the case of gasoline pool, nearly 90%% of sulfur content comes from FCC gasoline in China and about 33%% in USA.

In the case of gasoline pool, nearly 90%% of sulfur content comes from fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) gasoline in China and about 33%% in USA.