TANKER in a Sentence

Learn TANKER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for TANKER, such as:

1. Oil gushed from the hole in the tanker.
2. The tanker failed to respond to a command to stop.
3. Last night a cargo ship collided with a tanker carrying crude oil.
4. MPs were urged to amend the law to prevent another oil tanker disaster.
5. The owner of a large tanker, which was to carry gasoline from a Turkish refinery to Iran, stopped the ship from sailing as scheduled.

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 Meanings and Examples of TANKER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
tanker
 n.  a cargo ship designed to carry crude oil in bulk
 n.  a soldier who drives a tank
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1  Oil gushed from the hole in the tanker.
2  Last night a cargo ship collided with a tanker carrying crude oil.
3  MPs were urged to amend the law to prevent another oil tanker disaster.
4  The tanker failed to respond to a command to stop.
5  It was feared that the break-up of the oil tanker would result in further pollution.
6  There's been some suggestion the cyclone could disrupt oil tanker traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
7  The owner of a large tanker, which was to carry gasoline from a Turkish refinery to Iran, stopped the ship from sailing as scheduled.
8  The Pentagon won't yet say how the USS John S. McCain was rammed by an oil tanker near Singapore, but an information warfare specialist in the Navy doubts the collision stoke cyber threat fears that GPS systems can be spoofed by hackers.