diesel fuel

noun

: a heavy mineral oil used as fuel in diesel engines

Examples of diesel fuel in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Still, not everyone believes hydrogen is the answer to replacing dirty diesel fuels. Kristin J. Bender, The Mercury News, 16 May 2024 With how many millions of miles trucks travel across the country annually, though, there’s the issue of diesel fuel particles adding to overall air pollution. Cameron Aubernon, Popular Science, 15 May 2024 Upsetting smells, such as burning meat and diesel fuel, could remind veterans of charred flesh and military trucks, for example. Heather Mayer Irvine, Health, 9 May 2024 Some $120,000 per truck is offset by a state grant, and the site expects to recuperate much of the up-front cost in savings from maintenance and diesel fuel. Luis Melecio-Zambrano, The Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2024 France and Germany have backed down on plans to end subsidies for agricultural diesel fuel. Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Apr. 2024 The organization also has looked at shifting public policy to regulate burn days, when old orchards are set afire, and electrify big rigs that rely on diesel fuel, a key polluter on the main highways that bring agriculture from the valley to cities in the north and south. Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2024 Besides deferring some environmental rules, France has canceled a tax increase on diesel fuel for farm vehicles. Roger Cohen Ivor Prickett, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2024 There was a heat wave amid power outages, the result of an Israeli attack on Gaza’s power plant and restrictions on diesel fuel. Laila El-Haddad, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1949, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of diesel fuel was in 1949

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“Diesel fuel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/diesel%20fuel. Accessed 25 May. 2024.

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