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Examples of tank in a Sentence
Alexander Smith, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2023
Her home has been hit twice by artillery and tank fire, most recently demolishing the kitchen and damaging part of her niece’s bedroom.
—Mark Sappenfield, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Nov. 2023
Water levels in the Danube River fell low enough to expose Nazi military ruins—a jeep, a tank.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
A lot of them, if they can be safely removed from the top of the gas tank, are usually faded or damaged or all in bits and pieces.
—Robert Ross, Robb Report, 20 Nov. 2023
Hundreds of thousands have fled to the south, leaving a silence broken only by the pop of machine-gun fire and the heavy thrum of Israeli tanks.
—Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
For months, the aerial vehicles supplied by Quantum Systems, a German technology firm, had worked smoothly for Ukraine’s military, swooping through the air to spot enemy tanks and troops in the country’s war against Russia.
—Aaron Krolik, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2023
SpaceX’s new system involves flooding 358,000 gallons of water from ground tanks into steel plates and releasing them through holes in the plating, as the Fish and Wildlife assessment describes it.
—WIRED, 18 Nov. 2023
Small temperature fluctuations inside the tanks can cause methane and liquid oxygen to boil off, or transition from a liquid to a gas, and be lost.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 17 Nov. 2023
Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2023
Spices, seasonings, and other flavor-boosters Cold, flu, COVID, and even allergy symptoms can weaken your senses of taste and smell and tank your appetite.
—Christine Byrne, Mph, SELF, 13 Nov. 2023
The complaint argues that the purchase tanked the company’s share price.
—Bylila MacLellan, Fortune, 24 Oct. 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
Facing a possible mutiny from defense hawks threatening to tank the agreement, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) pledged to bring a supplemental defense spending bill up for a vote later in the year.
—Emily Jacobs, Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2023
The Orioles tanked and now they are bound for the playoffs.
—Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
But Republican populism has also come at a cost: Republican identification among the college-educated has tanked.
—Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 9 Nov. 2023
But no, the Patriots shouldn’t tank two games into the season.
—Christopher Price, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
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Word History
Noun
Portuguese tanque, alteration of estanque, from estancar to stanch, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *stanticare — more at stanch
Noun
1609, in the meaning defined at sense 4
Verb
1863, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 2
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“Tank.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tank. Accessed 4 Dec. 2023.
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tank
1 of 2 nountank
2 of 2 verb
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