gallon

[ˈɡælən]

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.