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• The tanker is 25 years old but she is still very seaworthy.From the entry she
• They pirated the tanker and sailed to a port where they could sell the ship and cargo.From the entry pirate
• Tanker trucks use baffles to keep the liquids inside from sloshing around.From the entry baffle
• Some 50 firefighters, 10 tankers and waterbombers battled the grass and scrub blaze, which began about 12.30pm.2009 February 28, Anthony Dowsley, Jane Metlikovec, “Relief for Victorians as weather fails to hit extremes”, in Herald Sun, archived from…. From the entry waterbomber
• How did a piston engine tanker refuel a faster jet bomber?2005, The Mobility Forum: The Journal of the Air Mobility Command, page 21. From the entry toboggan
• Oil and liquefied natural gas tankers moving through the Strait of Hormuz carry around 20% of the world’s supply.2026 March 20, Eleni Giokos, “The Strait of Hormuz is about more than just oil. It feeds 100 million people”, in CNN Business, archived…. From the entry Persian Gulf
• The studied period goes across different dominant ship technologies, such as sail, steam, combustion, specialized vessels (e.g. container, tanker), and megacarriers.2015, César Ducruet, Maritime Networks: Spatial structures and time dynamics. From the entry megacarrier
• "Inside, tankers carry full-length M16s for crew protection from crunchies."2009, James Wesley Rawles, Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse. From the entry crunchy
• More than 21 tankers are now battling the blaze which has spread to 20ha and destroyed a hayshed.2009 January 28, Sarah Wotherspoon, “Mercury rising as firefighters battle grass blaze”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 04…. From the entry hayshed
• The fleet has tankers for water purification and oxygen cracking, but the space-intensive nature of agriculture limits food production.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Quarians: Economy Codex entry. From the entry hand-to-mouth
• Tung apparently plans to lay up 10 tankers at Penghu, an island off West Taiwan (see map, page 1).1975 July 18, “ULCCs plan goes ahead”, in Marine Week, volume 2, number 29, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7, column 2. From the entry Penghu
• Pipeable products may be moved from refinery centers to demand zones by truck, barge, intercoastal tanker or pipeline.1974, United States Congress Senate Committee on Commerce, Deepwater Port Act of 1973: joint hearings. From the entry refinery
• The wagons allow all equipment to be carried - including craneable and non-craneable mega-trailers, 45' HCPW containers, tankers, swap bodies, and finished vehicles.2023 July 12, “Network News: T3000 wagons on cross-Channel trial”, in RAIL, number 987, page 20. From the entry craneable
• Sometime later, they made a rendezvous with a Victor air tanker for a top-up of fuel and then resumed patrol while the tanker headed back.1989, Julian Jay Savarin, Trophy, page 157. From the entry air tanker
• That is a lot of ship, about the size of big tankers before they grew so rapidly to become supers, mammoths and oilbergs.1973, Jeffrey Potter, Disaster by Oil, page 46. From the entry super
• "Handlock" deck covers are available for access to tank cleaning holes and other types of openings on barges, tankers and cargo vessels.1969, Marine Engineering/log - Volume 74, page 127. From the entry handlock
• In this, the airliner made contact with an air tanker and "topped up" its incompletely filled tanks with fuel enough for the contemplated journey.1945, Sydney E. Veale, To-morrow's Airliners, Airways and Airports, page 254. From the entry air tanker
• Instead, they would load tankers with Zamzam water from the well inside the Kaaba complex, and use that to fill up the dispenser shared by the two rooms.2025, Banu Mushtaq, “The Shroud”, in Deepa Bhasthi, transl., Heart Lamp, And Other Stories, page 174. From the entry Zamzam
• The captain of a suspected “shadow fleet” oil tanker detained off the coast of France will go on trial in February accused of failing to cooperate with authorities.2025 October 3, Miranda Bryant, “Captain of oil tanker linked to Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’ to go on trial in France”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry shadow fleet
• Vance's assignment is to patrol a stretch of the Yangtze between Chungking and Ichang and to protect American missionaries, tankers and freighters that fly the American flag.2015, Scott Derks, Working Americans 1880-2015, 2nd edition, volume V, Grey House Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 212. From the entry Ichang
• It "tobogganed" - the refueling connection would be made high up and then the bomber and tanker flew "downhill" together enabling the tanker to pick up more speed.2005, The Mobility Forum: The Journal of the Air Mobility Command, page 21. From the entry toboggan
• School gyms and washrooms, primarily — but also lifeboats, smokestacks, and other daubable features on the superstructure of a Liberian oil tanker I sailed on for one summer.1998, Arthur Black, Black by Popular Demand: More Wit and Whimsy, page 5. From the entry daubable
• Adverse weather conditions in the North Sea affect the tankers' ability to stay moored to the SPM and their ability to remoor, and are the major cause of offloading downtime.1980, European Offshore Petroleum Conference & Exhibition, Proceedings - Part 2, page 33. From the entry remoor
• The replacement and enlargement of the entire cargo section, commonly called "jumboizing," of one of the smaller American-flag tankers, now under bareboat charter to the Company, was completed in September.1945, Atlantic Refining Company, Annual Report, The Company. From the entry jumboize

Meaning of tanker

1. noun A tankship, a vessel used to transport large quantities of fluid.
2. noun A motor truck (lorry) with a tank to hold bulk liquid (with or without internal baffles): a fuel tanker (lorry), petrol tanker, road tanker.
3. noun An aircraft carrying a large supply of jet fuel or avgas for aerial refueling of other aircraft, plus equipment allowing the in-air transfer of fuel.

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How do you use tanker in a sentence?

Tanker is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Without the KC-46 tankers orbiting in friendly airspace, our fighters would've run out of fuel long before reaching the combat zone.”

What is a short sentence with tanker?

“"Inside, tankers carry full-length M16s for crew protection from crunchies."”

What does tanker mean?

Tanker means a tankship, a vessel used to transport large quantities of fluid.