gallon - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • spill: In Alaska, the Exxon Valdez runs aground and spills 11 million gallons of oil.
  • consume: Of the fifty states, Ohio alone consumes 20 million gallons per year.
  • pour: Sick officials from the Fish and Game Department poured 16,000 gallons of liquid and 60,000 pounds of powder into Lake Davis.
  • pump: It is only four years old and powered by diesel, is capable of pumping a thousand gallons off water a minute.
  • dump: It was a very wet day, monsoon was in full throttle, and dumping gallons of water from the skies.

Adjective modifier

  • imperial: The spare wheel is held in a secure cradle beneath the boot / gasoline tank which holds 10 imperial gallons.

Modifies a noun

  • cask: August 12 th 1865 To be sold, 1000 gallon cask of the best English oak.
  • jug: He just roamed the room with a white half gallon enamel jug topping up glasses.
  • tank: Nano Reef tank 11 gallon Bow Front i have a approx 11 gallon tank which is semi.. .
  • tender: The class either hauled 3500 gallon capacity tenders with straight sides or larger 4000 gallon tenders with turned in tops to their sides.
  • loaf: The amount of relief to be given was calculated on the price of a gallon loaf of bread ( weighing 8lb.
  • aquarium: It will grow too large for a 50 gallon aquarium in 3 years.

Noun used with modifier

  • forty: All waste water goes into a forty gallon holding tank.

Preposition: of

  • gasoline: A gallon of gasoline to produce a single bushel of corn, for example.
  • ethanol: The wet milling process is normally used in factories producing several hundred million gallons of ethanol every Year.
  • gasoline: Tuesday, January 10th, 2006... to the land where a gallon of milk costs more than a gallon of gasoline.
  • biodiesel: One acre of rapeseed yields 115 gallons of biodiesel.
  • wastewater: Southern Water treats more than 300 million gallons of wastewater at nearly 400 works daily.
  • sewage: Every day Southern Water treats over 300 million gallons of sewage at 400 works.

Preposition: per

  • acre: Even more disturbing was that some waterhemp survived application rates as high as two gallons per acre and were still setting viable seed.

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