burn fuel
Frequency: 8.522.1 per million words
to use fuel to produce energy, heat, or light
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- Modern aircraft burn fuel at a staggering rate during takeoff.
- Hybrids burn less fuel in city traffic than conventional cars.
- The old furnace was burning too much fuel, so we replaced it.
- When idling, the generator still burns fuel without producing much power.
- To meet the emissions target, the fleet must burn cleaner fuel.
- Rockets burn liquid fuel to escape Earth’s gravity.
- On cold nights, the stove burns fuel steadily for hours.
- Pilots plan routes that burn less fuel by avoiding headwinds.
- Data centers increasingly burn renewable fuel for backup power.
- If we burn fuel inefficiently, costs and emissions soar.