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 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 port, the refinery and the trade zone are among the biggest infrastructure projects in the continent.
  — Tom Page, CNN, 17 Nov. 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
• The paper mill is gone now, the steel mill is about to close, and many of the oil refineries are shifting to renewable energy.
  — Calmatters, The Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2024
• This site, south of Perth, was once BP’s biggest oil refinery in Australia.
  — Max Bearak Giacomo D’orlando, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2023
• According to the statement, no coke dust escaped the refinery grounds.
  — Will McCarthy, The Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2024
• The few refineries that do produce SAF sell it in small quantities.
  — Jaclyn Trop, Robb Report, 6 Apr. 2023
• This approach gives Kyiv more bang for its buck, hurting more than just striking the refineries at random.
  — Vasco Cotovio, CNN, 2 Apr. 2024
• Some of those write-offs involved a power plant in Citrus County, Fla., and a refinery in Europe.
  — Paul O'Donnell, Dallas News, 11 Sep. 2023
• What’s more, crude oil needs to be processed into fuel in a refinery, and at least five U.S. plants have closed permanently in the last two years.
  — Alana Semuels, Time, 22 Dec. 2022
• The fire broke out late last week in the hamlet of Mexicaltongo, in the township of Jilotepec, not far from a major refinery.
  — Fox News, 4 Jan. 2023
• Back then, Graves worked at an oil refinery in California and fished for sockeye salmon in Alaska to raise funds for the restaurant.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 16 Nov. 2023
• As demand soared, the industry rushed to start new mines, and refineries increased their capacity to process the ore.
  — Clifford Krauss, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2023
• In the years leading up to 2006, refineries had to invest billions of dollars into equipment to remove the sulfur to meet the new ULSD standards.
  — Robert Rapier, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• The oil tanker was empty, having offloaded its cargo at a refinery in Martinez the night before.
  — Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
• The refinery did not answer phone calls seeking comment.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 4 June 2023
• The du Pont family also lived right on the site, practically on top of the refinery, in a house called Eleutherian Mills.
  — Margo Rabb, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Feb. 2023
• Much of Gaza’s fuel is trucked in from a refinery in Haifa, and Hamas has rapidly diminished Gaza’s supplies for its own use.
  — Anna Schecter, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2023
• In addition to bordering homes, the refinery is roughly 1,000 feet north of a drinking water reservoir that serves the city.
  — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2023
• But a rise in gas prices this summer, caused in part by production cuts by Saudi Arabia and extreme heat that slowed US refineries, has made that case a tougher sell.
  — Jim Puzzanghera, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2023
• The gas price spike has been driven by a combination of OPEC’s supply cuts and extreme heat that has derailed refineries.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 3 Aug. 2023
• But refinery outages caused by extreme cold this winter have also contributed to the gas price jump.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024
• At that time, Exxon (XOM) was aware of three other nooses that had been displayed on the campus, which includes a chemical plant and a nearby refinery.
  — David Goldman, CNN, 2 Mar. 2023
• Was there a fire or explosion at the BP Whiting Indiana oil refinery?
  — Chris Sims, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Feb. 2024
• For the fifth time in four weeks, teachers, train drivers, nurses, oil-refinery staff and other workers marched in demonstrations from Paris to Marseille.
  — Noemie Bisserbe, WSJ, 16 Feb. 2023
• Lynas, the largest rare earths miner outside China, is building a rare earths refinery in Australia.
  — Lily Kuo, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2023
• The same confluence of factors at local refineries contributed to a spike in fuel prices about this same time last year, when gas prices soared nearly as high as the record levels seen in 2022.
  — Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024