Example sentences for: refueling

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

  • As NEADS personnel looked for refueling tankers in the vicinity of New York, the mission crew commander considered scrambling the Langley fighters to New York to provide backup for the Otis fighters until the NEADS Battle Cab (the command area that overlooks the operations floor) ordered "battle stations only at Langley."

  • One long-distance runner I spoke with said he relied on sports bars for refueling during long runs, and that the taste and texture become irrelevant when you are incredibly hungry and tired.

  • Colonel Marr, the battle commander at NEADS, and General Arnold, the CONR commander, both recall that the planes were held on battle stations, as opposed to scrambling, because they might be called on to relieve the Otis fighters over New York City if a refueling tanker was not located, and also because of the general uncertainty of the situation in the sky.

  • Because the Otis fighters had expended a great deal of fuel in flying first to military airspace and then to New York, the battle commanders were concerned about refueling.


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