Example sentences for: gallons

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

  • Andros is awash with fresh water, which is put to good use: over 6 million gallons are pumped into tankers each day and shipped across to New Providence, where fresh water is much in demand.

  • This sort of misnomer leads Carnegie to suppose that “to the uninitiated no map is so misleading as that of West Australia where lakes are salt-bogs without surface water, springs seldom run, and native `wells' are merely tiny holes in the rock, yielding from 0 to 200 gallons.”

  • All of which makes me glad that the two great powers that lost out in this century's power struggles were Germany and Russia, or we might be savoring the delights of borscht, potatoes, and sauerkraut, washed down by gallons of vodka!

  • The forest gets over 180 inches (41���2 m) of rain each year — that’s some 100 billion gallons (450 billion liters) of water.

  • In the absence of a unifying international story, most of the weekend's papers led on domestic stories, with one notable exception: The European media devoted gallons of ink to the Aug. 11 total eclipse of the sun, which should be visible Wednesday from northern Europe to the Bay of Bengal.


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