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
• This wasn’t just like some tankers, like this was a gas.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 13 July 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• So the Ukrainian tankers towed away the T-72 using their own T-64 as the tractor.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
• Early on, the thought of reliving his days as a tanker came to mind.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
• The attack set ablaze a passing train with tanker cars.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
• 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
• 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 tanker had just entered the Red Sea on its way toward the Suez Canal, an official said.
  — Martha Raddatz, ABC News, 13 Dec. 2023
• A day after the video was posted, the state arranged for water tankers to be sent to the village.
  — Omkar Poojari, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 May 2024
• Their lives are punctuated by the horn of the water tanker.
  — Sameer Yasir Saumya Khandelwal, New York Times, 3 June 2024
• Amid the 30-foot-high waves, the tanker lost its way and was passing near rocky Ulak Island, in the far western Aleutians.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2023
• There's a $75 limit on free gas per customer, so don't be rolling up with your own tanker truck.
  — Laura Sky Brown, Car and Driver, 24 Nov. 2022
• The first ship in the video is actually the tanker Pechenga, which is supplying the spy ship.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 24 Jan. 2023
• The agency also brought two large air tankers that dropped fire retardant on the blaze.
  — Isabella Volmert, Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2023
• Air tankers dropped water and fire retardant to keep the flames from Yellowknife.
  — David Sharp and Jim Morris, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Aug. 2023
• In Yellowknife, air tankers dropped water and fire retardant on the flames.
  — Time, 19 Aug. 2023
• The next day, the oil-tanker captain Joseph Hazelwood guided the Exxon Valdez and its 53 million gallons of crude oil toward the sea.
  — Lois Parshley, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2022
• This is in part supported by the account of a merchant tanker that was nearby.
  — Renata Brito, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2023
• The driver of a Toyota minivan passed a tanker truck while both were traveling west on the highway.
  — Taylor Ardrey, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2024
• Despite being the largest animals on the planet, blue whales are still no match for giant tankers and accidental ship strikes.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 16 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024