Example sentences for: tanker

How can you use “tanker” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • BP Amoco owns 50 percent of Alyeska, the company that operates both the pipeline and the Valdez oil terminal near where the huge tanker Exxon Valdez crashed on a reef in 1989, spewing millions of gallons of heavy crude into Prince William Sound.

  • NEADS controllers were simultaneously working with a tanker to relocate close to the Otis fighters.

  • They had originally targeted a commercial vessel, specifically an oil tanker, but Bin Ladin urged them to look for a U.S.warship instead.

  • Though the advent of air travel negates the need for passengers to take a long sea journey, the Suez Canal is still important for cargo vessels, and watching a leviathan tanker travel sedately through the passage is an unreal experience.

  • The smuggling involves thousands of tanker trucks openly transporting millions of tons of fuel along roads in northern Iraq that are under U.S and allied air surveillance.


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