A flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters.
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Examples for "kerosene "
Examples for "kerosene "
1 Most still depend on kerosene and wood for their daily energy needs.
2 Let the kerosene remain in the trap for at least 5 minutes.
3 The project will replace kerosene lamps with light emitting diode lighting technology.
4 There is a smell of kerosene oil and onions in the air.
5 Without kerosene , the men couldn't cook food or melt ice to drink.
1 The 29th attackers had sewn on to their backs triangles cut out of kerosine tins.
1 Finally they poured coal oil on him and burned him to death.
2 A young man was counting eggs back near the coal oil can.
3 I'd farm day and night if it didn't take so much coal oil .
4 And we piled brush on top and poured coal oil on.
5 Burns like coal oil , and you can't hardly cut it with a hoe.
1 It splashed into the edge of a pool of lamp oil .
2 Goods like coffy, lamp oil , and corn meal are stored here.
3 It was stifling within, redolent of garlic and lamp oil soot.
4 A smell of sickness and lamp oil , of clothing days unwashed.
5 The lamp oil was almost gone; the light flickered feebly.
6 Loads of stuff is missing -food, lamp oil , her water bottle, purification tablets.
7 The smell of greasy cooking blended with the reek of axle and lamp oil .
8 The seeds are crushed for lamp oil , and the plant is used for fuel.
9 Stratton took a closer look, and saw that they had been doused with lamp oil .
10 The lamp oil had been drunk, the wicks cut up for food, the candles eaten.
11 The stink of lamp oil spread through the room.
12 The oil is much used in Mysore for dressing food, and as a common lamp oil .
13 The man had doused it with lamp oil .
14 The corridor floor was freshly laid with rushes, and smelled of strewing herbs and lamp oil .
15 Our lamp oil ... please fetch it down.
16 Had my lamp oil run out, I should have bought liquor and tried to burn it instead.
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