How to Use refinery in a Sentence

refinery

noun

• Yeah, well, our school was right in the middle of the refinery.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2024
• The last strike at Marathon's Detroit refinery was in 1994, the union said.
  — Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 4 Sep. 2024
• This is the second fire at a BP oil refinery in less than a month.
  — Ronn Blitzer, Fox News, 21 Sep. 2022
• The blast, heard for miles around, took place at 9:30 a.m. local time at the Marathon refinery in Garyville.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2022
• The only that is not, in the tenth spot, is BP’s oil refinery along Lake Michigan.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Dec. 2022
• The pier is used to import cars and for delivery of oil to the Valero refinery.
  — Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Apr. 2022
• And a new refinery hasn’t been built in this country for more than 40 years.
  — Michael E. Kanell, ajc, 7 June 2022
• There isn’t a record of the exact date or year that the refinery opened its doors to the public for a Jack viewing.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
• The battlefield is a five-mile drive from the refinery.
  — New York Times, 18 Jan. 2022
• My father worked 12-hour shifts, four days a week, at an oil refinery near the Port of Long Beach.
  — Kiana Butler Jabangwe, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021
• And the gasoline sold at the stations comes from a local Phillips 66 refinery.
  — David Porter, ajc, 4 Mar. 2022
• Both countries have bombed each other’s oil refineries in the early days of the war.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 18 June 2025
• The port, the refinery and the trade zone are among the biggest infrastructure projects in the continent.
  — Tom Page, CNN, 17 Nov. 2022
• Haidai said the Russians were fighting for control of an oil refinery on the city’s edge.
  — Francesca Ebel, Chicago Tribune, 1 July 2022
• Haidai said the Russians were fighting for control of an oil refinery on the city's edge.
  — Arkansas Online, 2 July 2022
• In Abadan, a city once home to the world's largest oil refinery, videos also showed workers walking off the job.
  — Jon Gambrell, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2022
• The prospect has raised alarm among the refinery’s 1,200 employees.
  — New York Times, 23 May 2022
• Particles mirror the light of the sun setting on the horizon while homes and refineries on the west side shape the skyline.
  — Alixel Cabrera, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
• And looming in the background, dotting the horizon like the bones of long dead dinosaurs, are the refineries themselves.
  — Matt Monagle, Chron, 7 Apr. 2023
• The Utes is also proposing to built their own refinery on its reservation in the area.
  — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2023
• Smilin’ Jack, at the Phillips 66 refinery in Wilmington, turns 69 this year.
  — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2021
• Tanks are an outsize source of fumes at a refinery, researchers have found.
  — Ingrid Lobet, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2021
• The study found that over the past five years, Colorado has seen higher gas prices than 85% of the states without refineries and higher prices than 79% of the states with them.
  — Noelle Phillips, Denver Post, 7 June 2025
• As the parade was coming to an end, drones hit an oil refinery in the Ural Mountains, 750 miles east of Moscow.
  — Anatoly Kurmanaev Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 9 May 2024
• Her plan to retire at 59½, as refinery workers often do, has been torn up along with her roof and the trees in her yard.
  — Rick Rojas, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2020
• The North Dakota Supreme Court issued a pair of rulings last year clearing the way for the refinery to move forward.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 21 June 2021
• With the imminent closure of the refinery, who will be in charge of bringing Smilin’ Jack to life is unknown.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
• If the expense falls on the refineries, simple economics says the cost will be passed on to consumers.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
• Another missile hit a fuel refinery in the coastal city of Haifa, touching off a huge blaze.
  — Greg Myre, NPR, 16 June 2025
• Smoke billows in the distance from an oil refinery following an Israeli strike on Tehran today.
  — Nbc News, NBC news, 18 June 2025