How to Use tank in a Sentence

tank

1 of 2 noun

• Divers come by three times a week to clean the tank and feed the fish.
  — Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 29 Mar. 2024
• The crew sets up a shot of fire ants rafting in a tank.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2024
• Hundreds of people, young and old, crowd the road in front of the tank.
  — Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• When the truck flipped, water and fish poured out of its tank.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
• There's also a nice LED to show how much juice is left in the tank.
  — Brenda Stolyar, WIRED, 27 Nov. 2023
• The explosion was caused by a tank mine buried in the road, the report said.
  — Anton Troianovski, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
• Some divers bring all their own gear (except the dive tanks).
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 6 May 2023
• The Commendatore, as he’s called, looks more like a tank.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023
• Choose from black or white and leave it open over a simple tank, or do the French tuck with a pair of jeans.
  — Bridget Degnan, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2023
• The smoke was filmed in a tank, and the shot was put back together as a composite.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2024
• Next to the barrel, minnow-sized tilapia swim in a smaller fish tank.
  — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2023
• Sotelo stopped on the shoulder of the freeway to fill up his tank, and his wife and young child came out to help him.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• To use it, fill the 96-ounce tank with water and a cleaning solution, then use the brush to spot clean.
  — Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 10 Sep. 2023
• One piece of the hydrogen tank’s dome, about a foot square, ended up a few feet away.
  — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2023
• The explosion was caused by a tank mine buried in the road, the television report said.
  — Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 6 May 2023
• For example, a fish tank in the apartment is front and center in some of the scenes, and seems to mirror the lives of the migrants.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 21 Feb. 2024
• Parts of two or three propane tanks jettisoned 50 feet away.
  — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 10 Feb. 2024
• Then again, the whole idea of free seasons and free heroes is in part what made games like Avengers tank on the revenue side.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
• To channel this creepy movie grab a little black dress or a red tank with a leather jacket.
  — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 17 Oct. 2023
• Vlad said his grandmother was put on a tank and his mother on a bus.
  — USA Today, 31 May 2023
• For those five long decades, Lolita lived and performed twice daily in a cramped tank.
  — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023
• Mix and match the skirt with a white tank or pair it with matching bandeau for a punchy monochromatic look.
  — Sophie Dweck, townandcountrymag.com, 18 May 2023
• Smoke poured into the basement, along with water from a burst tank upstairs.
  — Hannah Allam, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2023
• As for the battered décor, the Raoul brothers ejected the Chianti bottles on the tables, but kept the rest: the bar, the booths, the tin ceilings and walls, and the fish tank at the back.
  — Penelope Green, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
• The crossroads had long been a stop where truckers filled their fuel tanks and their bellies.
  — Markian Hawryluk, CBS News, 25 Sep. 2023
• The Guest in Residence founder wore a cropped white ribbed sweater tank paired with loose-fitting beige-and-white pinstripe pants.
  — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 May 2023
• Don’t have fire logs, propane tanks or untreated wood decks near a structure.
  — Jeastman, oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2023
• In cracking what a giant futuristic tank would sound like, Aadahl noticed there was a void in the tread of the tank.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 4 Oct. 2023
• Faced with a slim parking spot, the car rotates in place as the wheels move independently, like a tank.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Nov. 2023
• Tonopah, Nevada The drive between Ely and Tonopah can be long and lonely, so make sure to leave with a full tank of gas and plenty of food and water.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 11 Sep. 2023

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tank

2 of 2 verb

• Some people have accused her of tanking.
• Some people say she deliberately tanked the match.
• In this case, profits could tank and the stock could sink.
  — Q.ai - Make Genius Money Moves, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2022
• The Orioles tanked and now they are bound for the playoffs.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
• The stress and despair from that journey alone tanked her health.
  — Brianna Sacks, Anchorage Daily News, 17 July 2023
• The show’s fans tanked the bar’s Yelp reviews and were harassing the staff.
  — Irina Aleksander, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2024
• Every team knows how to tank without having to float a bribe to the coach to lose games.
  — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 2 Aug. 2022
• But no, the Patriots shouldn’t tank two games into the season.
  — Christopher Price, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
• The franchise dumb enough to tank for a franchise quarterback isn’t smart enough to build around him.
  — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 20 Nov. 2021
• The pile-on continued and some said this could tank her chances of running for office in the future.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2024
• The Fed could still tank the economy by keeping rates too high for too long.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 28 July 2023
• It was supposed to be the Jazz, Pacers, and Spurs, but only the Spurs appear ready to tank the season.
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Dec. 2022
• Blanchett’s tirade against the awards-show machine was seen by some as tanking her chances at Oscar gold.
  — Vulture, 14 Jan. 2024
• Across the country, home sales have tanked as buyers and sellers alike are turned off by a big rise in mortgage rates.
  — Lance Lambert, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2023
• Week 1 is also too early to start tanking for Caleb Williams or Drake Maye.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 2 Sep. 2023
• Frustrated users tanked One’s rating on Google Play from 4.6 to 2.8 stars.
  — Craig Silverman, ProPublica, 11 Mar. 2024
• Remember when Baidu launched its Ernie Bot with edited videos and its shares tanked?
  — Emilia David, The Verge, 7 Dec. 2023
• The 2022 results soured a lot of voters on what Trump could do to tank the party yet another time.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 13 July 2023
• This isn't the first time McConnell has seen Republicans tank their own races.
  — Douglas Heye, CNN, 26 Jan. 2022
• The complaint argues that the purchase tanked the company’s share price.
  — Bylila MacLellan, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2023
• The players hope gains on the other end of the spectrum will help offset teams continuing to tank.
  — Jared Diamond, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2022
• Some of the market's sharpest drops again came from the financial industry, where stocks tanked for a second day.
  — Stan Choe, ajc, 10 Mar. 2023
• Lastly, don’t assume the annoyances of the day before will tank the new day before you.
  — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 9 Sep. 2022
• Come the postseason, however, those numbers tank across the board.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2023
• With nine council members, a couple or even as many as four no votes would not tank Woodfin’s budget.
  — Joseph D. Bryant | [e-mail], al, 27 June 2023
• The Cards, who seem to be actively tanking, took down the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday, 28-16.
  — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2023
• In other words, the Braves won because other teams decided to tank.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 13 Nov. 2021
• White’s probe found that the Dolphins did not intentionally tank to lose games in 2019.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2022
• Trump tried, unsuccessfully, to tank him once out of spite.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 4 Oct. 2022
• If the company’s board, which includes a number of Trump family members and cronies, tries to waive this provision, alarmed investors could tank the stock before Trump has a chance to cash out.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024