How to use "gas" in a sentence

There's a sound as some gas escapes, followed by a bad smell.

The street had only one gas lamp

Mrs Cox saw the stranger in the light of the gas lamp opposite Mary's front door

Hundred-foot-long signs-five - hundred-foot-long signs - towered five or even ten stories above the street, glittering, winking, thousands of miles of bright glass tubing filled with glowing gas, blinking, swirling, hundreds of thousands of bulbs, spelling out hotel names, forming pictures with light

"We're investigating a possible gas leak in the neighborhood."

Do you have a gas stove in the kitchen?"

There's a gas furnace."

I think all the houses in this area have gas furnaces

He was wearing a gas-company uniform, and he was carrying a large tool kit with the gas-company emblem on it.

"Sure." From his shirt pocket, he withdrew a laminated ID card with the gas-company seal, his picture, his name, and his physical statistics.

The garage was slightly musty, but Tina wasn't able to detect the odor of gas.

"It's a good thing you're not working in the gas company's public relations department."

Tina left the repairman from the gas company in the garage and returned to Danny's room

The gas company workman called from the front of the house, startling Tina.

If there's a gas leak in this neighborhood, it's not anywhere on your property."

"Well, there was the gas man," Tina said as she hurried down the short hall toward the master bedroom.

"The repairman from the gas company."

"A gas company workman?"

"They've lost some pressure in the gas lines

"He wanted to check my furnace, make sure there wasn't any gas escaping."

He had a photo ID card from the gas company

As she reached for the knob, she smelled the gas in the garage.

They wanted it to appear as if you'd died in an accidental gas explosion

In the rush to get out of her house before the gas explosion leveled it, he hadn't noticed that she'd been carrying anything

None of these people had to worry about professional killers, bizarre conspiracies, gas-company men who were not gas-company men, silencer-equipped pistols, exhumations

The window was constructed like a sandwich: Two one-inch-thick panes of shatterproof glass surrounded an inch-wide space filled with an inert gas

Towards midnight on 12 August, one astronomer noticed a great cloud of hot gas on the surface of the planet

That night, too, there was another sudden cloud of gas from the distant planet as a second missile started on its way to Earth from Mars, just under twenty-four hours after the first one

I told Ogilvy, and he took my place and watched the cloud of gas growing as it rose from the surface of the planet

That was near the bridge by the gas-works.