How to Use refinery in a Sentence

refinery

noun
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  • Yeah, well, our school was right in the middle of the refinery.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The last strike at Marathon's Detroit refinery was in 1994, the union said.
    — Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 4 Sep. 2024
  • This is the second fire at a BP oil refinery in less than a month.
    — Ronn Blitzer, Fox News, 21 Sep. 2022
  • 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 pier is used to import cars and for delivery of oil to the Valero refinery.
    — Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Apr. 2022
  • And a new refinery hasn’t been built in this country for more than 40 years.
    — Michael E. Kanell, ajc, 7 June 2022
  • The port, the refinery and the trade zone are among the biggest infrastructure projects in the continent.
    — Tom Page, CNN, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Haidai said the Russians were fighting for control of an oil refinery on the city's edge.
    — Arkansas Online, 2 July 2022
  • Haidai said the Russians were fighting for control of an oil refinery on the city’s edge.
    — Francesca Ebel, Chicago Tribune, 1 July 2022
  • In Abadan, a city once home to the world's largest oil refinery, videos also showed workers walking off the job.
    — Jon Gambrell, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The prospect has raised alarm among the refinery’s 1,200 employees.
    — New York Times, 23 May 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
  • As the parade was coming to an end, drones hit an oil refinery in the Ural Mountains, 750 miles east of Moscow.
    — Anatoly Kurmanaev Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 9 May 2024
  • With the imminent closure of the refinery, who will be in charge of bringing Smilin’ Jack to life is unknown.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
  • If the expense falls on the refineries, simple economics says the cost will be passed on to consumers.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • The company also says oil prices would rise and refineries would be put at risk.
    — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 11 July 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
  • The Suncor refinery provides about one-third of the gasoline used in Colorado.
    — Noelle Phillips, The Denver Post, 28 May 2024
  • The same is true of the Russia-Ukraine war, where oil refineries deep inside Russia have been hit by drone attacks.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 10 July 2024
  • 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
  • The ranch, a seven-thousand-acre nature reserve, is just off the highway, a few miles from a Chevron refinery.
    — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
  • The ability of solar fuels to produce fuels was shown to work in the year 2019 in a mini refinery on the roof of ETH Zurich.
    — Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 25 June 2024
  • Steam escaping from stacks at an oil refinery in Port Arthur, Texas.
    — Wired, 29 July 2022
  • One refinery that had served the East Coast closed after an explosion in 2019 and never re-opened.
    — Arkansas Online, 20 July 2022
  • Video posted on Twitter also showed a section of the refinery in flames.
    — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 21 Sep. 2022
  • If supply sources such as refineries, ports, and pipeline terminals are further away, then transportation to the point of sale adds to the total price paid at the pump.
    — Deena Zaidi, Quartz, 29 Oct. 2024

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