Synonyms for oil well


Grammar : Noun


Définition of oil well

  • noun hole to extract oil
Example sentences :
  • It was for some stock in an oil well, and was made out to 'bearer.'
  • Extract from : « Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South » by Laura Lee Hope
  • Look at oil well for Mr. Hodges, and see if there is any there.
  • Extract from : « The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch » by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter
  • Did you say you didn't know where that oil well was, Mr. Hartley?
  • Extract from : « The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch » by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter
  • The typical Pennsylvanian oil well is said to last about seven years.
  • Extract from : « Geology » by William J. Miller
  • The forty-foot tower is built much like an oil well derrick.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories, March, 1931 » by Various
  • "This is a letter from an oil well promoter," said Dick Rover.
  • Extract from : « The Rover Boys in the Land of Luck » by Edward Stratemeyer
  • You know it takes a lot of time and money to sink an oil well.
  • Extract from : « The Rover Boys in the Land of Luck » by Edward Stratemeyer
  • The oil well proposition was beginning to interest him tremendously.
  • Extract from : « The Rover Boys in the Land of Luck » by Edward Stratemeyer
  • Colonel E. Drake sank the first oil well in Pennsylvania in 1859.
  • Extract from : « Inventions in the Century » by William Henry Doolittle
  • Jane's father had died of a weak lung and the failure of his oil well.
  • Extract from : « The Gay Cockade » by Temple Bailey

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