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
• That’s enough to fill a line of gasoline tanker trucks close to 17 miles long.
  — Erik Skindrud, Mercury News, 19 June 2025
• 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
• Malta had asked the tanker to rescue the migrants on Aug. 4.
  — Frances D'emilio and Maria Grazia Murru, Star Tribune, 4 Sep. 2020
• 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 tanker had 23 crew members — 18 Filipinos and five Greeks.
  — Bloomberg.com, 5 Sep. 2020
• 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
• Ground crews attacked the right flank of the fire while an air tanker made retardant drops across the head and left flank.
  — Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 30 May 2025
• One air tanker made a retardant drop at the beginning of the incident, which slowed the spread and helped ground resources contain the fire's growth.
  — Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 21 June 2025
• The regime need not follow through on that threat, mine the strait, or seize tankers to destabilize global energy markets and force commercial shippers to seek alternate routes.
  — Dana Stroul, Foreign Affairs, 23 June 2025