gallon

Example Sentences

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In the early hours of Monday morning, a section of the Llangollen Canal collapsed, leaving a giant hole and gallons of water running into a nearby field.

From BBC

An outpost for 30 soldiers with a couple of sentry points and barracks will burn through about 13 gallons of fuel a day.

From The Wall Street Journal

But the plant soon began quietly dumping millions of gallons of chemical-laced waste into the town’s eponymous river and surrounding woods.

From Los Angeles Times

As long as we’re stuck with a version of CAFE, though, there is another change needed to eliminate a distortion: Stop averaging miles per gallon and start averaging gallons burned per thousand miles.

From The Wall Street Journal

With billions of gallons of cellulosic ethanol around, the auto industry would produce cars that could take a blend of 85% ethanol, leading to greater U.S. energy self-sufficiency.

From The Wall Street Journal