gas station
noun
: a retail station for servicing motor vehicles especially with gasoline and oil
called also service station
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Howard County Police are investigating a nonfatal shooting that injured a gas station employee in Columbia on Friday evening.
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Cbs Baltimore Staff, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2026
In October, the DEA Los Angeles Field Division found 628,000 pills containing carfentanil, while in September, officials seized more than 50,000 counterfeit M30 pills from a person at a gas station in Washington state that turned out to be a mixture of carfentanil and acetaminophen.
—ABC News, 17 Apr. 2026
The chase that led to Dampier’s death started with a disturbance at a Harvey gas station, according to prior reporting.
—Evy Lewis, Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026
There's usually a slight delay between when crude prices drop and when gasoline prices follow; individual gas stations have already paid high prices to fill their massive underground tanks, and will try to recoup that cost.
—Camila Domonoske, NPR, 17 Apr. 2026
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Cbs Baltimore Staff, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2026
In October, the DEA Los Angeles Field Division found 628,000 pills containing carfentanil, while in September, officials seized more than 50,000 counterfeit M30 pills from a person at a gas station in Washington state that turned out to be a mixture of carfentanil and acetaminophen.
—ABC News, 17 Apr. 2026
The chase that led to Dampier’s death started with a disturbance at a Harvey gas station, according to prior reporting.
—Evy Lewis, Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026
There's usually a slight delay between when crude prices drop and when gasoline prices follow; individual gas stations have already paid high prices to fill their massive underground tanks, and will try to recoup that cost.
—Camila Domonoske, NPR, 17 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for gas station
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“Gas station.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gas%20station. Accessed 24 Apr. 2026.
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