How to Use supertanker in a Sentence

supertanker

noun

• As Mostert wrote those words, the brief golden age of the supertanker was already ending.
  — The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
• The fire broke out around 7 p.m. Friday when lightning struck one of the crude storage deposits at a supertanker base in northwestern Cuba, some 55 miles east of Havana.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2022
• That’s five times bigger than the Titanic, and the Icon is only 300 feet shorter than the longest ship ever built, the oil supertanker Seawise Giant.
  — The Week Staff, theweek, 15 Jan. 2024
• Turning a presidential race around is like trying to free a supertanker stuck in a waterpark wave pool.
  — Christian Schneider, National Review, 18 Jan. 2024
• Roughly speaking, that is about 1.5 oil supertankers of magma every 24 hours.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 29 Feb. 2024
• As an indicator of persistent weakness, one-year supertanker rentals now cost a third less than a year ago, according to Braemar.
  — Collin Eaton, WSJ, 1 July 2021
• China is on an oil-supertanker hiring spree, a sign energy demand has sped up after the world’s second-largest economy limped out of its Covid-19 lockdowns.
  — Costas Paris and Joe Wallace, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2023
• Aguilar’s interest in politics and current events began when the Exxon Valdez oil supertanker spewed nearly 11 million gallons of oil into Alaska’s coastal waters.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2023
• To arrive at the Los Angeles refinery, crude oil is transported in supertanker ships that dock at special berths at Southern California ports.
  — Ingrid Lobet, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2021
• Instead, every 10 days or so an oil supertanker arrives at a refinery near the Honolulu port, producing almost 80% of the state’s energy, said Mikulina.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2024
• In a shock dismissal, Volkswagen Group’s board of directors fired the carmaker’s chief executive best known for steering the supertanker around in favor of a bright new future manufacturing electric vehicles.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 22 July 2022

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024