kerosene

IPA: kˈɛrʌsin

A thin colorless, blue- or straw-colored petroleum-based fuel heavier than gasoline/petrol or naptha but lighter than diesel, used primarily as jet fuel but also for heating and lighting in some remote or impoverished areas.

Examples of "kerosene" in Sentences

Torches soaked in kerosene, ready to burn my house down?
Well that and soak his robes in kerosene and hope he stands too close to a burning cross.
Layla Abdel-Qader, 49, a housewife, said she buys kerosene from the vendors every winter.
His 61st story was particularly horrifying: six Sunnis doused in kerosene and burned to death.
May need separate the receiver from the stock; soak the receiver in kerosene for a couple of hours.
I don't have any personal experience, but I have been told that kerosene is better than motor oil because it does not darken the tile as much.
Now I see how, in your mind at least, the destruction of which a truckful of fertilizer and kerosene is capable ican be equated with that of a military-grade semi-automatic firearm and thus both items presumably should be equally free from “prohibition”.