Fuel for big rigs

Usage examples of diesel.

He sniffed the air, the scent a mixture of diesel oil and diesel exhaust from the emergency generator, ozone from the electrical equipment, cooking oil, lubricating oils, and amines from the atmospheric control equipment.

The electrical smell of the ship came into his nostrils, a brew of cooking oil, ozone, diesel fuel, cleaning solution, and amines, the perfume of it filling him with nostalgia.

There had been no noise loud enough to hear above the general traffic, the diesel buses and taxis.

The Discovery leaked black diesel smoke from its rusty anus and the inappropriate pale blue clunky interior designed by Sir Terence Conran was filthy and falling to bits, but Cicely felt it would do the job.

That was when Fuchs had worked as a diesel fitter for a boat company on the Elbe.

If the environment should happen to cross your mind while you are trying to decide between leaded, unleaded, diesel, or gasohol, severe legal penalties would ensue.

Like the jalopy, the bright new sedan was equipped with a powerful Diesel motor which Jeffrey had designed and installed himself.

The cook-boy was scattering diesel from an old jerrican on to a pile of branches and in an instant a fire blazed at the edge of the clearing.

And the wind had also whipped all the urban smutch out to sea, all the stink of diesel, gasoline, chemicals and garbage fires, leaving a sky so blue it was like the sky of childhood.

The hull was angling downward in the darkness, he could feel it, and he could almost see it in the light of a secondary explosion from aft--the diesel fuel oil tank exploding.

Daniel Addison dozed lightly in a window seat near the back of the tour bus, his senses purposefully concentrated on the soft whine of the diesel and hum of the tires as the coach moved north along the Autostrada toward Assisi.

Turning off the huge diesel without letting it idle in neutral for several minutes was a good way to damage it, and damaging the bulldozer was one of the last things he wanted to do.

The Molt was turned half away from them, hunching forward, hearing the diesel engine of the nearest APC but unable to see even that.

Class A diesel pusher with dual 6V Coach batteries, ducted AC and heat, 100-gallon gas tank, LP and water, a 4KV generator and a full monocoque chassis.

In the stillness that replaced the howl of shells, small arms sizzled audibly among the grumble of diesels as soldiers responded to tele porting Molts--or to their own nervousness.