How to Use tanker in a Sentence

tanker

noun

• This wasn’t just like some tankers, like this was a gas.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 13 July 2023
• 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
• Early on, the thought of reliving his days as a tanker came to mind.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
• 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
• But those tankers run on fuel, which is now in short supply.
  — Anna Schecter, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2023
• 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
• 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
• After colliding with the side of the road, the tanker split open, leaking its contents onto a riverbank next to the road.
  — Owen Bellwood / Jalopnik, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2024
• The Starship depot will linger in low-Earth orbit as tankers arrive one by one.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 17 Nov. 2023
• The driver of the tanker truck died from injuries sustained during the crash, the sheriff's office confirmed.
  — Anthony Thompson, The Enquirer, 27 Jan. 2024
• The other will be a tanker version to carry methane and liquid oxygen to the gas station.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2023
• Market participants said tanker rates would leap if the conflict engulfed Egypt and led to the closure of the Suez Canal.
  — WSJ, 18 Oct. 2023
• The biggest ships in the world are the ultra large crude carriers, at 415 meters twice the length and eight times the capacity of coastal tankers.
  — Michael Barnard, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• Since the fires, tankers of water had been dumping hundreds of gallons of water on the tree every few hours.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 19 Sep. 2023
• Every week or so, a small tanker truck pulls up to the Grand Tier and workers connect a hose to the side of the building that sucks out the liquid carbon with a loud hiss.
  — Brad Plumer, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2023
• Foster employed the camera one day when a gasoline tanker overturned on the freeway.
  — Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
• The plows and drone-defenses address the most serious threats tankers on both sides of the war contend with every day: mines and FPV drones.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
• Importantly, almost half of all of Russia’s crude oil exports are shipped via tankers out of the Black Sea.
  — Sal Gilbertie, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• The suspects allegedly fired at the trooper while driving, hitting a tanker truck that happened to be on the freeway.
  — Brie Stimson | Fox News, Fox News, 5 Feb. 2023
• The roar of the growing burn was overlaid with the thrum of air tankers and helicopters as firefighting response began to gear up.
  — John Riha, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2023
• The Maryland Department of the Environment tweeted the tanker truck was filled with fuel and that cleanup efforts are in progress at the scene.
  — Melanie Balakit, Baltimore Sun, 24 Mar. 2023
• Many towns are having water brought by tanker trucks often at huge expense.
  — Joseph Wilson and Emilio Morenatti, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024