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In a fast neutron reactor, this process is optimized so that it can breed fuel, often using a depleted uranium blanket around the core.

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 Meanings and Examples of FUEL
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fuel
 n.  substance that can be consumed to produce energy
Classic Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1  Time went on in Coketown like its own machinery: so much material wrought up, so much fuel consumed, so many powers worn out, so much money made.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV
2  These men stirred not, excepting now and then, under the direction of one who seemed their chief, to shift and replace the ready fuel.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
3  And it was to be fed with a new fuel, that burnt in small quantities at a great heat, under peculiar conditions.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
4  The idea of a new concentrated fuel that burnt with a hard slowness at a fierce heat was what first attracted Clifford.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
5  There must be some sort of external stimulus of the burning of such fuel, not merely air supply.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
6  Clifford's idea was, that his coal, even the poor sort, could be made into hard concentrated fuel that would burn at great heat if fed with certain damp, acidulated air at a fairly strong pressure.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
7  The bonfire was by this time beginning to sink low, for the fuel had not been of that substantial sort which can support a blaze long.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
8  "And he would hardly afford good fuel like that," said the wide woman.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
9  This was a small human hand, in the act of lifting pieces of fuel into the fire, but for all that could be seen the hand, like that which troubled Belshazzar, was there alone.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
10  Surely 'tis somewhat childish of you to stay out playing at bonfires so long, and wasting such fuel.'
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
11  But this detracted little from its interest, which lay in the excellent fuel it provided for newly kindled fervour.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 3 How a Little Sound Produced a Great Dream
12  When all the surrounding bonfires had burst into existence Charley kindled his, and arranged its fuel so that it should not require tending for some time.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 5 An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated
13  It was not till his stock of fuel had greatly diminished that he went to the back door and sent in to beg that Mrs. Yeobright would open the window-shutters and see the sight outside.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 5 An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated
14  His passion for her had occurred too far on in his manhood to leave fuel enough on hand for another fire of that sort, as may happen with more boyish loves.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: 1 The Inevitable Movement Onward
15  It was Saturday, and the neighbors' sons were getting up the winter fuel.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence: (51 in 4 pages)
16  When nuclear fuel is manufactured it is encased in metal cans.
17  The power plant burns used vehicle tyres as fuel.
18  The fuel spontaneously ignites because of the high temperature and pressure.
19  The decision to raise tariffs on imports will only add fuel to the fire.
20  Food and fuel were scarce in this region.
21  Domestic fuel bills are set to rise again in the autumn.
22  Fears that the world was about to run out of fuel proved groundless.
23  The new Metro is designed to run on unleaded fuel.
24  I haven't noticed any significant reduction in the performance of my car since switching to unleaded fuel.
25  The authorities have urged people to stock up on fuel.
26  Muscle cells need lots of fuel and therefore burn lots of calories.
27  Despite being one of the world's largest oil exporters, Nigeria refines only a very small proportion of even its own fuel needs, and has to import the rest - a severe and unnecessary drain on resources.
28  The newspaper article provided him with fuel for his speech.
29  A bin or tank especially for fuel storage, as on a ship.
30  In a fast neutron reactor, this process is optimized so that it can breed fuel, often using a depleted uranium blanket around the core.