gallon

Definition:
1. A unit for measuring liquid. In the UK, Canada and other countries it is equal to about 4.5 litres; in the US it is equal to about 3.8 litres. There are four quarts in a gallon.

Use 'gallon' in a sentence:

• 1. A car can be driven as far on a gallon of the new plant-based fuel as a car can be driven on a gallon of gasoline, but a gallon of the plant-based fuel both costs less and results in less pollution.
• 2. Four gallons of regular and some oil, please.
• 3. The current average gas price in the US is $1.71 per gallon.
• 4. Avoid, for instance, the 50-gallon drum of Hot Tamales.
• 5. By comparison, President Obama announced last week that each automaker will be required to reach a corporate average of 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016.
• 6. It flies using a 23 gallon tank of gas and burns 5 gallons per hour in the air.
• 7. Which has a higher boiling point, a quart of water or a gallon of water?
• 8. The little red car would do fifty miles per gallon.
• 9. Start the day by filling up a half-gallon jug with water (or any combination of smaller bottles that equals 64 ounces).
• 10. It's a gallon of water, it's about nine pounds.
• 11. How many miles to the gallon do you get?
• 12. About the quality control of drinking water in 5-gallon barrels.
• 13. A cow will yield several gallons of milk each day.
• 14. We just harvest them and grow a bunch in a 42-gallon (160-liter) barrel, so we can spray it out in a food-rich environment.
• 15. Will the cost of a gallon of fuel still be our concern?
• 16. 46 people need to drink a half gallon a day each.
• 17. At the rate of five billion gallons per second.
• 18. How much oil do you require? Will five gallons see you through?
• 19. The imperial gallon is not the same size as the US one.
• 20. Next to me was a woman demonstrating a shower saver. As she was telling a passer-by the qualities of the device, she mentioned that it saved 25000 gallons of water a year.
• 21. Gasoline now costs an average of $3.15 a gallon, seven cents shy of the record set last May.
• 22. My car gets 35 miles to the gallon.
• 23. Where on earth can I find an animate soul transgressing; without inhaling gallons of fresh air.
• 24. In the air, where Boeing 747s get about 2 miles to the gallon—that kind of gas mileage would be revolutionary.
• 25. This is blood for blood, and by the gallons.
• 26. The current average gas price in the U. S. is $1.71 per gallon.
• 27. The U.S. government says the average family uses 300 gallons of water every day.
• 28. The tank has a capacity of300 gallons.
• 29. For $22,155 it can go 30 miles per gallon in the city and 42 on the highway.
• 30. I'd like five gallons of wine.
• 31. My car does 35 miles to the gallon.
• 32. How many miles per gallon does this car get?
• 33. There are 33, 700watt-hours of energy in an American gallon of petrol.
• 34. Do you really need a gallon of mayonnaise, or 1000 clothes hangers?
• 35. Yeah, man, the human body's got a gallon.
• 36. Today, Nissan said their new car is going to get 367 miles a gallon.
• 37. I'd like five gallons of gin.
• 38. This car does 30 miles to the gallon.
• 39. Gallons of sea water had rushed into the cabin and were now swilling about in the bilges.
• 40. If you need only half a gallon of water, use half a cup of baking soda.
• 41. Baking soda, about 1 cup per gallon of water.
• 42. A gallon of gasoline and the nylon overalls fall into the valley.
• 43. I need a gallon of petrol.
• 44. Yesterday, GM announced a new car that will get 230 miles a gallon.
• 45. The United States used approximately 270 billion gallons of water per day in 1960.
• 46. My car does forty miles to the gallon.
• 47. A sprayer hooked to a tractor can spray five gallons onto ten acres.
• 48. Four quarts constitute a gallon.
• 49. Mr. McCain argued that the tariff on imported ethanol of 54 cents per gallon should be scrapped.
• 50. The subsidy of 45 cents per gallon remains.
• 51. The price of petrol is coming down by four pence a gallon.
• 52. The average price for all grades of petrol at the pump was $3.49 a gallon.
• 53. Critics have zeroed in on his plan to raise gasoline taxes 10 cents a gallon.
• 54. Unleaded petrol rose more than a penny a gallon.
• 55. Unleaded gasoline rose more than a penny a gallon.
• 56. Soak the soil around each bush with at least 4 gallons of water.
• 57. Thousands of gallons of crude oil were spilled into the ocean.