The changing of the air carries off heat, the loss of which must be supplied by fuel, which fuel costs money.
Watt made it a quick, powerful, and efficient engine, requiring only a fourth as much fuel as before.
The wood required for fuel left little room in the vessel for freight.
The dry pine wood used for fuel sent out a cloud of thick, black smoke, flames, and sparks, which spread terror among the watermen of the harbor.
They first built huts for the kettles and for themselves; fixed the store trough and cut a supply of fuel for the fires.
They did not fear the cold of winter; for their log-houses would have thick walls, and they had large iron stoves with flues, and plenty of fuel to be had for the trouble of chopping.
The fuel is to consist of all the dime novels in the camp.
To be able to start three consecutive fires with three consecutive matches in the woods, with fuel found in the woods; one of the fires to be built in a damp place.
To be able to start a fire with a fire drill, the fuel and material used to be found in the woods.
We might as well have gone back before the sun set; there is no fuel here.
As it is, such a course would only add fuel to the flame.
It was only when we were so fortunate as to find a dry mulberry, ash, or cotton-wood still standing, that we could procure fuel well adapted to our purpose.
The fuel we had taken on board, being of an indifferent quality, we were able to make small progress against the rapid current of the Missouri.
It takes fifty tons of accumulators to build up that field, and a ton of fuel a day to maintain it.
Through a window in the side of the near engine, Greg could see the iron ingot used as fuel dwindling under the sucking force.
They had no straw to lie on, no fuel but one cart load per week for 800 men.
This was truly a prize I conveyed the treasure on board, and in the economical manner in which it was used, it furnished the mess to which I belonged with a supply of fuelfor a considerable time.
There was a small sheet iron stove between decks, but the fuel was green, and not plenty, and there were some peevish and surly fellows generally about it.
The intense cold requires this heavy fuel to supply the needed heat and comfort.
Especially is this the case where the fuel used is any of the coals, instead of wood.
We camped where it would be possible for us to get water without too much labor, and set about gathering fuel before everything was soaked by the rain, and darkness was upon us.
The scarcity of fuel was no more than might have been expected, for now we were coming to that part of the country where wood was a rarity.
Our bodies utilize their fuel more perfectly than any machine that man has invented; but they fail, nevertheless, to do so completely.
Food should possess other qualities than fuel value: first of all it must be appetizing, for appetizing food receives the most thorough digestion.
A similar economy of fuel has, through the improvement of their engines, been effected in ocean steamers.
Whatever fuel and labor-saving causes operate on one must necessarily operate upon the other.
I think now that this mutual restraint added fuel to our flames, for when we thought of the moment of parting it was with dumb sadness and with no idea of taking the opportunity of rendering one another happy.
Though strong, the flame would no doubt soon have died down if it had not received fresh fuel every day, for when I saw the young messenger a week later in church I scarcely recognized him.
Irene shared Marcoline's desires, for when it was settled that they should sleep together they seemed wild with joy, and I added fuel to the fire by plying them with punch and champagne.
Rose's refusal of Doctor Perry but added fuel to the flame; it is the unattainable we seek, the unattainable only that we fancy can satisfy; the unattainable that at any cost we must have.
Later investigations show that while there is considerable undeveloped lignite, coal suitable for fuel is not wanting.
It was better than the average of Texas oil and was considered a good fuel and lubricating product.
The yak dung is in many places the only fuelto be got and is most carefully picked up.
After a little time we induced some of the villagers to come out from their hiding-places, and to produce tents and fuel for us.
Riding on to Chulungphu, we found tents pitched for us and fuel and milk all ready.
Here we used as fuel the aromatic wood of the juniper.
The villagers soon had three tents pitched for us on a grassy field between the village and the river; cushions, cooking pots and fuel were also brought out for us.
He told us that our coolies could collect fuel anywhere on the right bank of the Kharta River, but begged that we would not collect it anywhere near where we were living, as the villagers would object.
It is sufficiently known, that coke is a more valuable fuel than the coal from which it is obtained.
For it is well known, that when too little air be given to flaming fuel it produces no flame, but sooty vapour; and if too much air be admitted to make those vapours break out into flame, the heat is often too violent.
The rude method of illumination consists, as is sufficiently known, in successively burning certain masses of fuel in the solid state: common fires answer this purpose in the apartments of houses, and in some light-houses.
About one-third of the above quantity, or say forty tons of good common coal, value ten shillings per ton, is required for fuel to heat the retorts, the annual amount of which is 20l.
It possesses advantages which cannot be obtained from flaming fuel, where much nicety is required; because no fuel can be managed like the flame of coal-gas.
The lower classes of the community are at present very scantily supplied with firing; and nothing but a reduction of price is necessary to increase to a very large amount the whole average quantity of fuel consumed in the country.
It is therefore peculiarly proper for heating large quantities of matter to a violent degree, especially if the contact of solidfuel with such matter is inconvenient.
I am writing you to-night before an old-time open fire, and I cut in the woods the fuel which feeds it.
There was no food or fuel in the house, and he had no money in his purse.
The only explanation given was: “That family down there need fuel badly.
Fuel and pigs grew enormously dear all over the district.
Fuel is very scarce, and now, as well as two hundred years ago, they have to burn cow-dung dried in the sun, when they cannot get turf from Connemara.
He strictly enjoined his successors to spare the sacred grove, and even directed in case any of the trees were blown down by the storm to give a part to the poor, a part to the citizens, and to reserve another part as fuel for the guest-house.
A hydrometer, or specific gravity tester, is a convenient instrument for the average motorist to own, and with it he may tell exactly what grade of fuel he is paying for.
The exact number of turns and fractions of turns through which the needle valve nut was moved should have been noted in order that the valve may be reset to its original position after the surplus fuel has been "cranked out.
Were the gasoline fed directly from the fueltank to the needle valve of the carburetor it is evident that the rate of flow of the liquid would depend, to a large extent, upon the amount in the tank and upon the position of the car.
Foreign matter and water that may be in the gasoline when purchased may be removed by straining the fuel through a chamois skin placed inside of the funnel through which the tank is filled.
The presence of the water in the fuel may be detected easily without the use of a hydrometer by drawing some gasoline from the bottom of the tank into a tin or white-enameled cup.
If the float is too high on its stem, the gasoline control valve may not be operated until the fuel overflows in its chamber.
At the high pressure at which the fuel is injected into the cylinder of the Diesel engine, practically any grade of gasoline, naphtha, kerosene, crude oil, or other form of petroleum can be vaporized.
The compressed air employed in the compression and injection of the fuel is also used for starting the motor, for this is not a type that is amenable to hand cranking.
In the Diesel motor, on the other hand, the ignition continues as long as fuel is admitted, and thus this engine is of the internal combustion type in the strictest sense of the word.
This is another feature in which the Diesel motor is entirely different from the Otto type, for the latter must employ a carburetor to vaporize the fuel before it can be admitted to the cylinder.
In fact, at heavy loads, when the total amount of gasoline consumed must be great, a secondary jet of fuel is brought into action in some carburetors.
The practice of "doping" the fuel tank by adding to the gasoline ether or some other highly volatile liquid is not to be recommended to the average motorist.
A farther objection is the uselessness of the existence of plants for a long period, without any animals to subsist on or enjoy them, and even without forming any accumulation of fossil fuel or other products useful to man.
As the Israelites must have had as much occasion to be sparing of their fuel as any people, and especially while journeying in the wilderness, it has been supposed that they must have had some such practice.
The fire was evidently built within the skirts of the wood, and was now burning brightly, as if replenished with fuel since they had discovered it.
The art of the potter was especially necessary at an early period, from the scarcity of fuel in some parts of the East.
He was gathering together the last little pieces of fuelwhen your present came.
A picture suddenly comes before me of this family, and there is a voice saying, "He was gathering together the last little pieces of fuel when your present came.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fuel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
