How do you use Oil in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like lipid or anele, plus the exact meaning.
Oil in a sentence
Related words
Oil meaning
- Liquid fat.
- Petroleum-based liquid used as fuel or lubricant.
- Petroleum.
Synonyms of Oil
Using Oil
- The main meaning on this page is: Liquid fat. | Petroleum-based liquid used as fuel or lubricant. | Petroleum.
- Useful related words include: lipid, embrocate, anele, inunct.
- In the example corpus, oil often appears in combinations such as: oil and, the oil, of oil.
Context around Oil
- Average sentence length in these examples: 32.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 17 start, 3 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Oil
- In this selection, "oil" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 32.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, peanut, surpassed, crude, production, refined and sands stand out and add context to how "oil" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include of the oil production in, oil and gas, crude oil, olive oil and oil company. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "oil" sits close to words such as investment, leave and couple, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with oil
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Tea tree oil, cinnamon oil, thyme oil and oregano oil can also act a good dressing for burns. (18 words)
These oil sands resources are called unconventional oil to distinguish them from oil which can be extracted using traditional oil well methods. (22 words)
The several types of peanut oil include: aromatic roasted peanut oil, refined peanut oil, extra virgin or cold-pressed peanut oil, and peanut extract. (24 words)
Although in 1899 Standard Oil controlled more than 85% of the oil production in the older oil regions in the Appalachian Basin and the Lima-Indiana trend, it never controlled more than 10% of the oil production in the new Gulf Coast province. (43 words)
Dozens of U.S. oil workers prepare to leave Iraq after air strikeDozens of U.S. citizens working for foreign oil companies in the southern Iraqi oil city of Basra were preparing to leave the country on Friday, Iraq's Oil. (41 words)
As of late 2006 there were over $100 billion in oil sands projects under construction or in the planning stages in northeastern Alberta. citation Another factor determining the viability of oil extraction from the oil sands is the price of oil. (41 words)
Example sentences (20)
The Company offers a wide range of cooking oils, available in five variants, which are refined soya bean oil, kachi ghani mustard oil, refined rice bran oil, refined sunflower oil and refined vegetable oil.
The peak of oil discoveries was in 1965, and oil production per year has surpassed oil discoveries every year since 1980. citation However, this does not mean that potential oil production has surpassed oil demand.
A blended oil or a multi-source oil that contains the benefits of olive oil is very beneficial to health as it contains antioxidants, making it the ideal oil for Indian cooking.
Methods of cleaning up oil spills include scraping oil off the surface of the water, sucking the oil out, or introducing oil-eating bacteria, Ayalon said.
Not only can constantly topping off the oil be expensive, but it could be a sign of failure or wear in multiple spots, including the gasket, oil pan, oil drain plug, or oil filter.
Dozens of U.S. oil workers prepare to leave Iraq after air strikeDozens of U.S. citizens working for foreign oil companies in the southern Iraqi oil city of Basra were preparing to leave the country on Friday, Iraq's Oil.
Iranian oil tanker incident follows the September 14 attacks on two Saudi Arabian oil processing plants that knocked out more than half of the kingdom's crude oil output that caused a spike in oil prices.
Tea tree oil, cinnamon oil, thyme oil and oregano oil can also act a good dressing for burns.
Try the Black Edition B1 Beard Oil, made of exotic ingredients like Jamaican black castor oil, Moroccan argan oil, and ylang-ylang oil to provide maximum hydration and healing for hair and skin.
Although in 1899 Standard Oil controlled more than 85% of the oil production in the older oil regions in the Appalachian Basin and the Lima-Indiana trend, it never controlled more than 10% of the oil production in the new Gulf Coast province.
As of late 2006 there were over $100 billion in oil sands projects under construction or in the planning stages in northeastern Alberta. citation Another factor determining the viability of oil extraction from the oil sands is the price of oil.
BP engineers developed and deployed a subsea oil recovery system over oil spilling from a deepwater oil well convert below sea level to capture escaping oil.
Discovery of oil The American Merrimac Oil Company drilled an early oil well at La Brea at Trinidad and Tobago in 1857, where oil was struck at convert.
Oil and Gas Journal, 2007 The state-owned National Oil Corporation (NOC) dominates Libya's oil industry, along with smaller subsidiaries, which combined account for around 50% of the country's oil output.
Oil and gas Oil drilling in Mallakastra, Albania Albania has the second largest oil deposits in the Balkans (after Romania) and the largest onshore oil reserves in Europe.
Oil further The gates of the oil refinery in Port Harcourt The oil boom of the 1970s led Nigeria to neglect its strong agricultural and light manufacturing bases in favor of an unhealthy dependence on crude oil.
Rail cars can be used to avoid a congested oil pipeline to get the oil to a different pipeline in order to get the oil to market faster or to a different less busy oil refinery.
Standard Oil, being formed well before the discovery of the Spindletop oil field and a demand for oil other than for heat and light, was well placed to control the growth of the oil business.
These oil sands resources are called unconventional oil to distinguish them from oil which can be extracted using traditional oil well methods.
The several types of peanut oil include: aromatic roasted peanut oil, refined peanut oil, extra virgin or cold-pressed peanut oil, and peanut extract.
Phrases with oil
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with oil
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- oil and 55×
- the oil 46×
- of oil 41×
- crude oil 39×
- oil production 21×
- olive oil 21×
- oil company 18×
- oil to 17×
- palm oil 16×
- oil prices 13×