Wondering how to use Refinery in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as plant or works.
Refinery in a sentence
Refinery meaning
A building, or a mass of machinery, used to produce refined products such as sugar, oil, or metals.
Using Refinery
- The main meaning on this page is: A building, or a mass of machinery, used to produce refined products such as sugar, oil, or metals.
- Useful related words include: plant, works, industrial plant.
- In the example corpus, refinery often appears in combinations such as: the refinery, refinery in, dangote refinery.
Context around Refinery
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 10 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Refinery
- In this selection, "refinery" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, sugar, dangote, oil, limited, skidel and gorodeya stand out and add context to how "refinery" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a fertiliser refinery and the and a nickel refinery. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "refinery" sits close to words such as abe, armenian and basics, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with refinery
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Managers at the Slavyansk refinery said: “The refinery has partially stopped working. (12 words)
The First Cobalt Refinery is a hydrometallurgical cobalt refinery located north of Toronto, Canada. (14 words)
Nigeria should have many more examples of the refinery being established by Dangote Oil Refinery. (15 words)
With the resumption of the Port-Harcourt Refinery yet to materialise, there are indications that the price control by the government despite deregulation would frustrate Dangote Refinery and others who are now relying on imported crude oil for processing. (39 words)
Days after the relative of an employee at Indian Oil Corporation Ltd Refinery tested positive for at Gorwa area in Vadodara, the refinery on Friday released a statement saying that they are taking precautions while continuing to operate normally. (39 words)
At the time, KwaZulu-Natal emergency services spokesperson Robert McKenzie that fire and smoke could be seen billowing from the refinery and that a block of flats on Beach Road, opposite the refinery, had also caught fire. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
BelTA reported earlier that four Belarusian beet pulp makers got green light to export to China: Zhabinka Sugar Refinery, Skidel Sugar Refinery, Gorodeya Sugar Refinery, and Slutsk Sugar Refinery.
He is the CEO of the Dangote Group, which owns several businesses, including a sugar refinery, a fertiliser refinery, and the mega Dangote Refinery.
In February 2024, the Dangote Refinery was ranked the seventh largest refinery in the world by NS Energy and SK Energy, but the American refinery was not among the top 10 on the list.
Since the 1950s the area has been dominated by heavy industry, including an oil refinery, steel-rolling mill with a blast furnace, alumina refinery, power station and a nickel refinery.
Dangote Refinery, which is the world’s largest single-train refinery, will produce as much as 650,000 barrels per day.
He added that the refinery will run at the highest capacity utilisation and the highest efficiency to enable the refinery to export competitively to other markets.
Mr. Aboagye said local refining of crude oil by Akwaaba Oil Refinery and the Platon Gas Oil Refinery were supporting the sector.
Pakistan’s Refinery Limited (PRL) will initially refine the Russian crude in a trial run, followed by Pak-Arab Refinery Limited (Parco) and other refineries, Malik added.
They set up haphazard facilities they call local refinery, artisanal refinery, this is crime against humanity because the livelihood of the people is being totally destroyed.
It is not a refinery that has been on ground for years like Sinclair, which is an old refinery,” he added.
Last January, the Dangote Refinery – Africa’s biggest oil refinery – began production in Nigeria, producing 650,000 barrels per day (bpd).
Managers at the Slavyansk refinery said: “The refinery has partially stopped working.
The refinery suffered serious fires triggered by gunfire in its vicinity, jeopardizing operations and escalating concerns over oil production stability in the refinery.
With the resumption of the Port-Harcourt Refinery yet to materialise, there are indications that the price control by the government despite deregulation would frustrate Dangote Refinery and others who are now relying on imported crude oil for processing.
At the time, KwaZulu-Natal emergency services spokesperson Robert McKenzie that fire and smoke could be seen billowing from the refinery and that a block of flats on Beach Road, opposite the refinery, had also caught fire.
Days after the relative of an employee at Indian Oil Corporation Ltd Refinery tested positive for at Gorwa area in Vadodara, the refinery on Friday released a statement saying that they are taking precautions while continuing to operate normally.
Nigeria should have many more examples of the refinery being established by Dangote Oil Refinery.
That same refinery without changing a pan can process palm kernel oil, so it is going to be a multi-faceted, multi-purpose and digitized refinery”.
The First Cobalt Refinery is a hydrometallurgical cobalt refinery located north of Toronto, Canada.
Truckers who haul fuel for Federated Co-operatives Limited and Co-op Refinery Complex protested against Unifor's blockade around the refinery downtown Regina on Thursday.
Common combinations with refinery
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the refinery 57×
- refinery in 33×
- dangote refinery 29×
- oil refinery 27×
- refinery and 16×
- refinery will 12×
- refinery has 10×
- refinery is 10×
- refinery to 8×
- sugar refinery 6×