Kerosene

//ˈkɛɹəsiːn//

"Kerosene" in a Sentence (12 examples)

I warned little Mary to leave the kerosene heater alone.

In places where it snows a lot, kerosene is an indispensable item.

This stove uses kerosene.

Tom went out to buy kerosene for his stove.

We used very little kerosene last month.

We've run out of kerosene.

Full of pure kerosene, that small lamp could be lit for several days.

To burn the house down, Fadil used industrial quantities of kerosene and paper.

To burn the house down, Sami used industrial quantities of kerosene and paper.

We're nearly out of kerosene.

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The kerosene lasted all winter, so the furnace kept us always warm.

The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.

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