Example sentences for: gallons

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

  • Maybe seniors tend to drive cars with bigger gas tanks, so they buy 20 gallons at a time instead of 10, thereby saving on the cost of processing credit cards.

  • They were planning to hijack these planes and turn them into large guided missiles, loaded with up to 11,400 gallons of jet fuel.

  • mole - The Boston Independent Journal in 1776 advertised “8 thousand gallons of Mole molasses.”

  • The packaging for Seventh Generation toilet paper claims that "[i]f every household in the U.S. replaced just one roll of 500 sheet virgin fiber bathroom tissues with 100% recycled ones, we could save: 297,000 trees; 1.2 million cubic feet of landfill space, equal to 1,400 full garbage trucks; 122 million gallons of water, a year's supply for 3,500 families of four."

  • BP Amoco owns 50 percent of Alyeska, the company that operates both the pipeline and the Valdez oil terminal near where the huge tanker Exxon Valdez crashed on a reef in 1989, spewing millions of gallons of heavy crude into Prince William Sound.


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