diesel fuel

Example Sentences

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Loud trucks kept passing and honking their horns, leaving a smell of burning diesel fuel in their wake.

From Slate • May 29, 2026

Meanwhile, the diesel fuel that powers the trucks hauling car parts — plus all sorts of consumer goods and produce — is $5.65 a gallon, up from $3.53 a year ago.

From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026

“At every stage, someone on a tractor or someone in a truck had to do something, and that is diesel. And diesel fuel is way up.”

From Salon • Apr. 24, 2026

Fakhreddine said they "stored some food supplies and diesel fuel for electricity generators, as a precaution in case, God forbid, the war returns again."

From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026

The smell of diesel fuel hung faintly over the river.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown