Fuel increments

Usage examples of gallons.

I did not falter as I ate a hamburger, drank several gallons of coffee as a preventive measure against the cold night air, and actually paid money to a gate attendant to be admitted to Falcon Stadium, Home of the Fighting Falcons, No Alcoholic Beverages Permitted.

The water was from a well, and the hose delivered only three or four gallons a minute, so it was going to take a while.

After drinking half the jug, the two artists laid hands on several gallons of blue paint and proceeded to refinish the front of the house Willard was living in.

Santa Monica and set his whole front lawn on fire after soaking it down with ten gallons of gasoline.

Every particle of muscle and fat about their limbs and bodies had apparently wasted away, leaving the skin clinging close to the bone of the face, arms, hands, ribs and thighs--everywhere except the feet and legs, where it was swollen tense and transparent, distended with gallons of purulent matter.

Longarm had about two gallons of water, and a horse could sweat five gallons in an hour, more under such a sun.

As the heli came in low over us, the trees swayed with the downwash and another sixty gallons of rain cascaded through the canopy.

The last compartment of all, in the very stern, contains six tanks that carry over one thousand gallons of gasolene.

It spread out across the ocean as it approached, and we could see it emptying countless thousands of gallons into the salt sea.

The world must know and the people of the world must gasp at this astounding news that millions of gallons of wine in France and boundless oceans of beer in Germany are not made by men at all but by incessantly toiling armies of creatures ten-billion times smaller than a wee baby!

Then all of them sweat at pouring numerous gallons of this bacillus-swarming soup which was the vaccine, into little bottles, a few ounces to each bottle, into clean bottles that had to be absolutely free from all other germs.

In those years he got down untold gallons of sour milk and swallowed billions of the beneficent bacilli of Bulgaria.

You turned in receipts to the bookkeeper that include shotguns and tear gas, airplanes, long-range fuel tanks, and aviation gas at six hundred gallons a pop.

As I pumped in the two gallons of warm water rich in formalin and sodium chloride I felt like Napoleon sending in the Old Guard at Waterloo.

It took the big sow a surprisingly short time to consume the two gallons and when she had finished she licked out every corner of the trough before turning away.