KEROSENE in a Sentence

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For KEROSENE, below is one of 7 sentences:
She had hoped for tiling, and a kerosene range for summer cooking, but Kennicott always postponed these expenses.

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 Meanings and Examples of KEROSENE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
kerosene
 n.  flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters
Classic Sentence:
1  Kennicott was yawning, stretched in the largest chair, between the radiator and a small kerosene stove.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  They were merely two-room shanties, with a seepage of broken-down chairs, peeling veneered tables, chromos pasted on wooden walls, and inefficient kerosene stoves.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  The four of them drank rather bad coffee which Pollock made on a kerosene burner.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
4  She had hoped for tiling, and a kerosene range for summer cooking, but Kennicott always postponed these expenses.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
5  Tragedy in neat blouses; the eternal flame all nice and safe in a kerosene stove.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
Example Sentence:
1  They include a wick for kerosene to be drawn from the tank.
2  A leakage of kerosene has polluted water supplies.