How to Use tanker in a Sentence

tanker

noun
  • Neither were oil or gas tankers.
    — Steve Kopack, NBC news, 12 Apr. 2026
  • So, the tanker captain said, hey, what the heck?
    — ABC News, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Some foreign ports even refuse tankers with heavy crude.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 11 Jan. 2026
  • The tanker truck flipped onto its side in the pre-dawn hours.
    — oregonlive, 30 Nov. 2020
  • Eight tankers full of water were still lined up on the street.
    — Dana Goodyear, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The tanker was hit with a drone earlier this month.
    — ABC News, 24 Mar. 2026
  • As the fire burned on for hours, crews sprayed water on the tanker to keep it cool.
    — Matthew Ablon, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
  • There was a shortage of truck drivers, and of tanker cars for trains.
    — New York Times, 14 May 2021
  • Crews worked to cool the tanker down and the leak stopped Tuesday evening.
    — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Water tankers were brought in to douse the browning canopy and soak the roots.
    — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 28 July 2024
  • But the last tankers to have left the region have now arrived at their ports.
    — ABC News, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Helicopters and air tankers have been used to slow the fire’s spread to the east.
    — Coleby Phillips, The Arizona Republic, 16 July 2024
  • Five of its tankers are stuck in the Persian Gulf.
    — Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 15 June 2026
  • That’s enough to fill a line of gasoline tanker trucks close to 17 miles long.
    — Erik Skindrud, Mercury News, 19 June 2025
  • That will make way for empty tankers to enter the strait, load up and head back out.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 24 May 2026
  • 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
  • These tankers are here to take our gasoline, our diesel, and our jet fuel, not just oil.
    — Matt Randolph, Forbes.com, 29 May 2026
  • Tank battles are usually won by the tanker who gets the first shot in.
    — H.r. McMaster, Washington Examiner, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Early on, the thought of reliving his days as a tanker came to mind.
    — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Twenty-one crew left the tanker uninjured as the fire burned.
    — Bloomberg.com, 5 Sep. 2020
  • For Starship, this would mean more tanker launches.
    — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Its map shows oil and gas tankers clustering just outside of the strait.
    — Matt Nighswander, NBC news, 4 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Within a couple of hours, the tankers were empty.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Of course not, but the captain has told the wheelhouse to turn the supper tanker.
    — Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Iran asserts control over the passage of tankers through the strait.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Firefighters sprayed water on the tanker to keep it cool as the fire burned for hours.
    — Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The third route, through the Suez Canal, was briefly blocked last year when a tanker ran aground.
    — Karen Elliott House, WSJ, 3 May 2022
  • Analysts warn that calm won't last if tankers aren't moving again by week's end.
    — Diane Brady, Fortune, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The town relies on tanker shuttles and also has a few cisterns in town.
    — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 18 Aug. 2025

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