Get to know Gallons better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Gallons meaning
plural of gallon
Using Gallons
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of gallon
- In the example corpus, gallons often appears in combinations such as: gallons of, million gallons, of gallons.
Context around Gallons
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 14 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Gallons
- In this selection, "gallons" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, 000, billion, 500, per, compared and daily stand out and add context to how "gallons" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1 500 gallons of water and 11 000 gallons gas station. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "gallons" sits close to words such as asserts, bicycles and bonded, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with gallons
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
They can carry anywhere from a few hundred gallons of water to almost 2,500 gallons. (16 words)
Why is this report giving us measurements in US Gallons rather than in Litres or Imperial Gallons? (17 words)
Fuel delivery vehicles range from 400 gallons (residential delivery vehicles) to 11,000 gallons (gas station supply tankers). (18 words)
The amount of sewage that the Wastewater Treatment Plant currently can handle per day is 20 million gallons, and “all 20 million gallons of that capacity have been sold to users right now” by the county, Bunker said. (38 words)
Discharges exceeding 370 gallons per day would require a license modification from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, but flows are estimated to be at 341 gallons per day based on eight employees and 35 seats. (36 words)
Sanwo-Olu said Lagos with 22 million population has a daily demand of 700 million gallons of portable water but the state could hardly supply 210 million gallons per day owning to shortage of infrastructure. (35 words)
Why is this report giving us measurements in US Gallons rather than in Litres or Imperial Gallons? (17 words)
Example sentences (20)
They sold “gallons and gallons and gallons” of ice cream over several years until Bill realized, “We bit off more than we could chew.
Sanwo-Olu said Lagos with 22 million population has a daily demand of 700 million gallons of portable water but the state could hardly supply 210 million gallons per day owning to shortage of infrastructure.
The FMC pumper/tanker built on a spartan holds 1200 gallons of water and is capable of pumping 1500 gallons per minute.
They can carry anywhere from a few hundred gallons of water to almost 2,500 gallons.
Each vehicle carries 1,500 gallons of water and 600 gallons of foam, essential for dealing with the large amounts of fuel carried by commercial airplanes.
The amount of sewage that the Wastewater Treatment Plant currently can handle per day is 20 million gallons, and “all 20 million gallons of that capacity have been sold to users right now” by the county, Bunker said.
The fixtures in the pre-1988 homes were water hogs, each flush used anywhere from 3 to 6 gallons of water to do one’s business and showerheads gobbled up to 5 gallons per minute.
According to the engineer, the daily production of water now stands at 6.4 million gallons compared to the previous 7.4 million gallons daily.
She returned a few hours later with a trunk-full of canned food and gallons upon gallons of water.
Currently, 4.8 billion gallons of recycled water is produced in America every day and this is expected to jump to 6.6 billion gallons per day by 2027.
Fuel delivery vehicles range from 400 gallons (residential delivery vehicles) to 11,000 gallons (gas station supply tankers).
Home brewers are allowed to make up to 200 gallons of beer per year, Curtis said, and small breweries jump to 50,000 gallons per year.
Iowa is the nation’s ethanol and biodiesel leader, producing 4.3 billion gallons of ethanol and 365 million gallons of biodiesel annually.
Discharges exceeding 370 gallons per day would require a license modification from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, but flows are estimated to be at 341 gallons per day based on eight employees and 35 seats.
That includes residents of East Los Angeles, who used an average of 42 gallons a day, and people in Huntington Park, who got by on just 34 gallons.
The bill also limits water withdrawals in new wells to 3,000 gallons per day in less crowded areas compared, to 950 gallons per day in watersheds that are densely populated.
The reason we are looking at water trucks is to have about 3,000 gallons to start the war with as opposed to some of the fire trucks can only carry 600 gallons.
Why is this report giving us measurements in US Gallons rather than in Litres or Imperial Gallons?
Eventually, a hogshead of wine came to be convert, while a hogshead of beer or ale is 54 gallons (250 L if old beer/ale gallons, 245 L if imperial).
Gallons of milk are almost always sold in jugs, while half gallons and quarts may be found in both paper cartons and plastic jugs, and smaller sizes are almost always in cartons.
Common combinations with gallons
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- gallons of 123×
- million gallons 38×
- of gallons 29×
- gallons per 20×
- to gallons 14×
- billion gallons 12×
- about gallons 12×
- and gallons 10×
- gallons and 8×
- gallons day 6×