How to Use diesel in a Sentence

diesel

noun
Definition of dieselnext
Synonyms for dieselnext
  • Does your car take diesel or gasoline?
  • The air smelled of diesel smoke, and the passengers sat cheek-by-jowl.
    — Marcia Desanctis, Travel + Leisure, 14 July 2023
  • The AfD is the party that speaks to those wanting to stick to diesel cars and gas boilers.
    — Joseph De Weck, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Instead of diesel, the engine burns methanol, at a rate of three gallons a minute.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The law envisions a total ban on the sale of new diesel and gasoline cars by 2035.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The district hauled out a diesel generator that ran for hours while the bus charged.
    — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023
  • New drilling permits had been in the works for a while, and the Tories haven’t nixed their commitment to end the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The district fell back on their diesel vehicles to get students to class that week.
    — Hannah Poukish, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2024
  • And a truck on a — with a large tank, large gasoline or diesel capacity, can go up to 2,000 miles.
    — NBC News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Rice is becoming harder to find in Haiti and diesel costs about $25 a gallon, Wine said.
    — Erika Angulo, NBC News, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Yes, the peppy little inline-five diesel purrs to life easily on the first crank.
    — Michael Van Runkle, Robb Report, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The engine is a 13 L diesel with two-stage turbocharging and a 13-speed transmission.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Running a diesel generator cart results in a lot of waste heat and noise.
    — Robin Warner, Ars Technica, 25 Jan. 2024
  • But with an inferno on one side and treacherous waves, spilled diesel and a reef on the other, there are fears that the sea was no safe place.
    — Bill Weir, CNN, 11 Aug. 2023
  • In response, Europe and the UK have sought diesel supplies from other markets.
    — Prejula Prem, Fortune Europe, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Electric cars are now cheaper than gas or diesel over their lifetime and will soon be just as cheap to buy upfront.
    — WIRED, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The regulations have triggered a run on diesel rigs as carriers add to their fleets ahead of the Jan. 1 bar against new diesel trucks at ports.
    — Paul Berger, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The agency would also like to transition the state’s transit bus fleet from diesel to electric.
    — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 2 Jan. 2024
  • An ice cream truck parks at the entrance to the park, right near our apartment, for 12 hours a day, with a diesel generator running the entire time.
    — Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2023
  • The two deisel engines will deliver a top speed of 18 knots, while one diesel generator takes care of the hotel load.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 8 June 2023
  • And what goes for gasoline and diesel also goes for aviation fuel.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2023
  • The manager found that one of the tenders, which was owned by a contractor, had diesel in its gasoline tank and gasoline in its diesel tank, Morse said.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Despite its tractor soundtrack, the diesel five is smooth from idle to whatever redline is (there's no tach).
    — Clifford Atiyeh, Car and Driver, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Barnes left home and his five siblings to attend auto and diesel mechanic school in Nashville.
    — Jim Morrison, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The slide is largely the result of a boom in the production of renewable diesel, a biofuel made from plant oils and animal fats in lieu of crude oil.
    — Bob Henderson, WSJ, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Global sales of petrol and diesel cars peaked half a decade ago, and the IEA estimated that almost one in five cars sold globally in 2023 were electric.
    — Hannah Ritchie, WIRED, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Drivers with cars that rely on gas and diesel go in for service 2.3 times per year on average with 10% of those trips prompted by recalls.
    — Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Meeks believes the price of hydrogen should fall toward parity with diesel over the next three years as the fuel becomes more common.
    — Paul Berger, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The complex has suffered disruption to wholesale diesel supplies this month.
    — Rachel Graham, Fortune, 28 June 2023
  • If the outage persists, a crew could arrive with a diesel generator to keep powering the tower.
    — WIRED, 23 Feb. 2023

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