How to Use tanker in a Sentence

tanker

noun
  • Crews worked to cool the tanker down and the leak stopped Tuesday evening.
    — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 26 Sep. 2024
  • But now there is a new threat: tanker strikes are killing the whales.
    — Longreads, 25 Oct. 2024
  • This wasn’t just like some tankers, like this was a gas.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 13 July 2023
  • The tanker truck flipped onto its side in the pre-dawn hours.
    — oregonlive, 30 Nov. 2020
  • The third route, through the Suez Canal, was briefly blocked last year when a tanker ran aground.
    — Karen Elliott House, WSJ, 3 May 2022
  • Water tankers were brought in to douse the browning canopy and soak the roots.
    — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 28 July 2024
  • The tanker cars have been delivered to the site, Wood said.
    — Mike Jones, Arkansas Online, 26 July 2021
  • Helicopters and air tankers have been used to slow the fire’s spread to the east.
    — Coleby Phillips, The Arizona Republic, 16 July 2024
  • The fuel tanker’s driver, David Hope, died at the scene.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Of course not, but the captain has told the wheelhouse to turn the supper tanker.
    — Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The next day, the group was transferred to a space in a tanker truck that was half loaded with oil.
    — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • When there are overflows, the city must bring in tanker trucks to haul the waste to landfills.
    — Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 May 2024
  • There was a shortage of truck drivers, and of tanker cars for trains.
    — New York Times, 14 May 2021
  • So the Ukrainian tankers towed away the T-72 using their own T-64 as the tractor.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
  • An air tanker pilot died in a crash while fighting the fire.
    — NBC News, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Early on, the thought of reliving his days as a tanker came to mind.
    — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Nine tankers arrived on Tuesday and six more the next day.
    — Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The attack set ablaze a passing train with tanker cars.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
  • That tops the amount of oil spilled by the Exxon Valdez, the infamous tanker that ran aground in Alaska in 1989.
    — ProPublica, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Some 35 tankers are headed for the US, dipping by two from a week ago.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 6 July 2024
  • In the middle, a truck driven by Jeff Deese serves as a pilot fish for the tanker.
    — al, 28 Feb. 2022
  • The scene on the beach serves up a variation on Jaws, with the tanker substituting for the shark.
    — Stephen Farber, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Tank battles are usually won by the tanker who gets the first shot in.
    — H.r. McMaster, Washington Examiner, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Twenty-one crew left the tanker uninjured as the fire burned.
    — Bloomberg.com, 5 Sep. 2020
  • Milk is picked up from the farm in tanker trucks and delivered to the processing plant.
    — Kerry E. Kaylegian, Discover Magazine, 23 May 2024
  • But those tankers run on fuel, which is now in short supply.
    — Anna Schecter, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2023
  • In total, 41 of the 53 sanctioned tankers are classed as crude or crude/products tankers.
    — Will Daniel, Fortune Europe, 10 July 2024
  • The tractor-trailer then began to sink into the canal as the tanker still dangled from the bridge.
    — Angie Dimichele, sun-sentinel.com, 23 July 2021
  • The fleet includes older tankers often registered in countries outside the sanctions regime and is used to skirt the $60 oil price cap imposed by Ukraine's allies.
    — Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 May 2025
  • Due to the potential for expansion up to 25 acres, additional air tankers were deployed.
    — Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 13 May 2025

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