burn fuel

Frequency: 8.522.1 per million words

to use fuel to produce energy, heat, or light

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Examples (10)

  • 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.