How to Use fossil fuel in a Sentence

fossil fuel

noun

• Nobody said the switch away from fossil fuels would be easy.
  — Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2024
• The world has to stop using fossil fuels, and yet, for a petrostate, letting go isn’t easy.
  — Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2023
• Across the Global South, fossil fuel use would drop by a quarter.
  — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 25 Oct. 2023
• But the distillery is still run on fossil fuels — and the treated wastewater isn’t drinkable.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2023
• The chemist is shocked to learn that people of the future are concerned about the amount of fossil fuels used in plastic production.
  — Evan Halper, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2024
• At Dubai, nearly 200 nations agreed for the first time to move away from planet-warming fossil fuels.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2024
• Grounded is the first company out of the gate with a vehicle that does not rely on fossil fuels.
  — Everett Potter, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
• But there are always trade-offs, in this case reduced demand for fossil fuels.
  — Time, 23 Aug. 2023
• Beck isn’t averse to helping dirty industries, like fossil fuels, clean up their act.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2023
• The poisonous gas comes from the burning of fossil fuels, with traffic one of the biggest contributors.
  — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2023
• These fish live along coastal Connecticut and Rhode Island, which cuts down on shipping costs and reduces the amount of fossil fuels used to bring fish from the water to the dinner plate.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 26 Oct. 2023
• Clean fossil fuel is the best answer to Texas’s electricity needs.
  — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
• That requires a transition from fossil fuels to clean energy over the next few decades.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 22 Mar. 2024
• The electrolyzer is plugged into the power grid, and fossil fuels still make up about 60 percent of the US electricity mix.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 28 Dec. 2023
• But the idea is to significantly reduce the reliance on fossil fuels.
  — Cara Buckley, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2023
• And that, in turn, will help bring about a shift in capital allocation, and thus, the transition away from—or phaseout of—fossil fuels.
  — Peter Vanham, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2023
• One obvious step for companies to get on track, then, is to switch from fossil fuels to pretty much anything else.
  — Bypeter Vanham, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2023
• The use of other fossil fuels also became more reliable than whale oil.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 18 Mar. 2024
• That risk will continue to rise as long as greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels continue to go up.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 27 Sep. 2023
• They’re incentivized to keep on burning more fossil fuels.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2023
• Alaska news is full of climate elegies now — every one linked to wrenching changes caused by burning fossil fuels.
  — Julia O'Malley, Anchorage Daily News, 9 July 2023
• That didn’t prevent Saudi Arabia leading a rearguard action against any attempt to include a fossil fuel phase out in the text.
  — Jennifer A. Dlouhy, Fortune, 13 Dec. 2023
• The burning of dirty fossil fuels to fish in such remote waters also carries a heavy carbon footprint.
  — Joshua Goodman, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2023
• Some of the largest companies in the world still call the city their home, including fossil fuel giants Shell and BP, which rank, respectively, ninth and 22nd globally.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2023
• Last year, the two companies said their trial project in Spain produced clinker without fossil fuels.
  — Yusuf Khan, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2023
• In the past, fossil fuel firms might have just pushed past these concerns, promising jobs and using their political clout to achieve their objectives.
  — Justin Worland, TIME, 23 Oct. 2023
• The backtracking from climate commitments in the oil-and-gas industry as fossil fuel prices have risen is a prime example.
  — Justin Worland, Time, 29 June 2023
• And that’s without even getting into the consequences of burning fossil fuels.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
• The burning of fossil fuels, including coal, oil and gas, accounts for more than 75 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Dec. 2023
• The bill highlights the challenges of balancing the competing pressures of protecting consumers at the pump while at the same time pushing policies to end the state’s reliance on fossil fuels.
  — Adam Beam, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024