Sentence examples for Petro from high-quality English sources.

• Mr Petro did not renew the bus fleet.

• One Petro is supposed to get you $60 or 3,600 sovereign bolívars.

• Nonetheless, Petro accepted the election result, as did the FARC’s Londoño.

• Duque beat Petro by a twelve-per-cent margin, but, in recent months, Petro has led in the polls.

• The petro is not exchangeable for oil.

• In theory, the petro could be Venezuela’s real.

• Mr Petro was elected as mayor of Bogotá in 2011.

• For the answer, conservatives point to Petro Pars's chairman, Behzad Nabavi.

Use Petro in a sentence.

• Unlike Mr Moreno, neither Mr Petro nor Ms Villarán has been accused of corruption.

• But Mr Petro appeals to a growing number of people angered by inequality and corruption.

• He ordered that Mr Petro be deposed as mayor and barred from political office for 15 years.

• Gustavo Petro, a former ally turned critic of Mr Moreno, then won the 2011 election for mayor.

• Once the initial excitement is gone, they may quickly realise what the Petro really is – or isn’t.

• International experts, however, have rather blunt words for the Petro: it’s a scam on top of another scam.

• The Petrocaribe scandal sparked the creation of Petro-Challengers, a movement that helped lead the protests.

• In Venezuela, which deprives people of access to dollars more effectively than did Zimbabwe, people could switch from the bolívar to the petro.

Petro sentence examples

• Nicolas Maduro, the country’s president, claimed that presales of the petro had raised $735m in precious foreign currency on the day it launched.

• One petro has the same value as a barrel of oil (now about $60), and the new bolívar is pegged to the new unit of account (at a rate of 3,600 to one).

• The presence of Petro, a onetime leftist guerrilla, in the runoff with Duque marked a significant change in the attitude of Colombian voters, who had long been leery of candidates from the left as a result of the prolonged conflict with the FARC.

• In the past few weeks several conservative newspapers have been asking why Petro Pars, a private Iranian oil company that Mr Zanganeh helped to set up, had been awarded contracts worth at least $5.5 billion, especially since Petro Pars lacked expertise, and had subcontracted many of its projects to foreign companies.