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kerosine

[ UK /kˈɛɹəsˌa‍ɪn/ ]
NOUN
  1. a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters

How To Use kerosine In A Sentence

  • The mood in Haiti today reminds one of the wanly flickering orange glow of the kerosine lamps that Haiti's market women - known as ti machann - use to illuminate their wares as they work late into the night. Michael Deibert: Notes from Haiti's Long Hot Summer
  • Cricket is the national game among the school-boys of the Punjab, from the naked hedge-school children, who use an old kerosine-tin for wicket, to the B. A.'s of the University, who compete for the The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling
  • This can be overcome by adding a small amount of an illuminant such as kerosine, vegetable oil, or animal fat. 1 Production and Use
  • I made it back to my loft, safely, and I lit my kerosine lamp which made my room glow pleasantly. Black Mind
  • Example, Mantles and wicks for old kerosine and gas lamps. Page 2
  • kerosine-powered jet engines
  • Also good is the scene at around 1: 10 where they throw a bucket of kerosine over the monster and the woman behind him. Sunday Cinema: The Thing from Another World (1951)
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