tankful in a sentence

Examples

1. European motorists are long accustomed to paying as much as four times what Americans shell out for a tankful of gas, due to fuel taxes that can add a staggering 80 percent to the retail gas price in the region.
2. The Ford Motor Co . said the step would cut air pollution by up to half for cars burning the fuel, and said those models needing premium gasoline would receive a tankful of the new fuel before leaving the assembly plant.
3. A less-advanced version of Frank's hybrid car got 77 miles per gallon, traveling 440 miles on a 5.6-gallon tankful of gasoline through the 4, 500-foot mountain ranges north of Los Angeles.
4. As it is, Honda says its CNG Civic gets a " real-world " range of 175 to 200 miles per tankful, or the equivalent of 28 miles per gallon city, and 34 miles per gallon highway.
5. The range of the VW diesel models is impressive-- the Passat sedan or wagon can go about 600 miles on a tankful, which is a trip from Detroit to Washington, D . C ., without having to refuel.
6. Villiger said he was on the bicycle tour the previous evening when they came upon a farmer following the time-honored Swiss practice of fertilizing his fields with a tankful of the winter's collection from the floor of his cow barn.
7. Similarly, in Myrtle Beach, S . C ., about 90 percent of whose 11.3 million annual visitors drive there, pent-up demand is expected to overcome any reservations about paying more for a tankful or two of gasoline.
8. c . 2000, Houston Chronicle INDIANAPOLIS _ They are a relic from the past, a product of another time, like the butter churn, the Pony Express and the tankful of gasoline that doesn't cost a sultan's riches.
9. Despite her tales of spray-painting her gang tag across Denver in unlikely places, drug abuse, shoplifting dlrs 70 jeans and tankfuls of gas, her only run-ins with the law have been when she ran away from home five times.
10. They believe the Gilroy location is so centrally located and accessible that it could potentially attract the 60 million people who live within a three-hour plane ride of the airports of San Francisco, San Jose and Monterey or within a journey of two tankfuls of gas by car.