gas up

Example Sentences

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I can see how it must feel, as the Yakima commissioner said, that lawmakers are putting “a cost on simply existing,” I, too, wince when I gas up my car.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 31, 2024

“Let’s be prepared - secure items that could become airborne, gas up your car, have cash and bottled water on hand,” officials said in a post on the social media platform X.

From Reuters • Aug. 28, 2023

This will be 46p per day for electricity and 28p per day for gas, up from 45p and 27p respectively now.

From BBC • Sep. 29, 2022

Over the course of an hour, more people used the station as a cut-through to skip a long light than to gas up for $6.99 a gallon.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2022

A convoy of trucks rolls by, Some truckers stop to eat or to gas up.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario