Sentence examples for the crude soared from inspiring English sources

The crude soared 25 metres (82 feet) into the air and flowed for a full day.

The price of a barrel of the benchmark Brent crude soared by more than $1.50 to as high as $101.08 a barrel as the protests against President Hosni Mubarak's regime intensified.

The international benchmark, Brent crude, soared 62 cents, or 2.5percentto to $25.80 per barrel by early evening in London.

The cost of Brent crude soared by 6.7% to $34.35 as Iran gave its verbal support for a production ceiling, even though it avoided making any immediate commitment to rein in its own growing output.

In 2008 the cost of a barrel of Brent crude soared to $147 ,enfeebling global growth even before the financial crisis killed it.

More recently, oil company profits set records as crude soared well above $100 a barrel, and even after the global downturn the price is more than $70.

The weakness of the dollar and concern about the impact that military action by Turkey against Kurdish rebels in Iraq sent the price of crude soaring over the past week.

With crude soaring, the rental rates on giant high-tech floating rigs used to drill deepwater wells have doubled in two years, to more than $400,000 a day.

Oil prices were also volatile as tension between Saudi Arabia and Iran sent Brent crude soaring in early trade only for prices to fall later on.

During the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the Iranian revolution of 1979, the Iraq-Iran war, the Iraq invasion of Kuwait in 1990 and the Second Intifada in 2000, crude oil soared and on some occasions more than doubled in price.

The trade deficit increased to the highest level in 13 months in April as America's bill for foreign crude oil soared to a record high.