Example sentences for: gallons

How can you use “gallons” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Many pundits pick on Gore's canoeing misadventure in New Hampshire, in which local authorities dumped seven million gallons of water into a dried-out-riverbed for a Gore photo-op (unbenownst to the Gore campaign).

  • The LAT front plus inside stories in the NYT and WP detail how two containers filled with 12,000 gallons of napalm are still riding the rails--destination still unknown--after the Chicago facility that was to recycle the shipment decided not to accept it, on the heels of protests from several midwestern members of Congress.

  • The speed at which your brain absorbs words (words per minute), your computer accepts keystrokes (characters per second), or your faucet squirts water (gallons per minute) can be described in terms of bandwidth.

  • Its capacity is printed on its side: 227 gallons, 2 quarts, 1 pint, 3 gills (some 868 liters).

  • To cool 20,000 gallons by 10 degrees means getting rid of 420,000,000 calories.


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