service station

noun

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2
: a place at which some service is offered

Examples of service station in a Sentence

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The lucky $1 million ticket was sold at a Sheetz service station in Canfield, which is about a 75-mile drive southeast from Cleveland. Don Sweeney, Kansas City Star, 4 Sep. 2025 The story of six-year-old Hind Rajab made headlines in January 2024 after the Palestine Red Crescent released audio of her distressed emergency call, made from a service station in Tel al-Hawa in southern Gaza. Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2025 Remarkably, the service station's original restrooms are still intact. Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 23 Aug. 2025 Originally built as a service station for Los Angeles’s one-time Yellow trolley cars up until the 1960s, Huron has been more recently used as a wedding and event space. Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 9 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for service station

Word History

First Known Use

1916, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of service station was in 1916

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“Service station.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/service%20station. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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