nozzle
Example Sentences
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With crude oil topping $100 a barrel, and the average price of gas in the state approaching $5.50 a gallon, every touch of the nozzle is painful for California drivers.
From Los Angeles Times
One is replacing the fuel nozzles to utilize natural gas instead of jet fuel.
Another method is to use injection-spray bars to create thousands of small holes on a course, using nozzles that force water into the snow.
From Los Angeles Times
He turns on the hose and directs the nozzle at the mats.
From Literature
In the pitch black of the mine, mud-splattered men with headlamps drill into the rock in two-man teams, using hydro drills with long, thin nozzles that shoot out pressurized water to loosen the ore.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
