Example sentences for: tanks

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

  • This deliciously backhanded phrase--an allusion to Czechoslovakia's "socialism with a human face," which was crushed by Soviet tanks in 1968--conveyed three corrosive messages: that conservatism lacked compassion to begin with, that conservatives couldn't tolerate compassion, and that for this reason, conservatism, like socialism, was doomed.

  • We seem to have lost sight of the fact that democracy is as much about procedures as about preferred outcomes, excusing Boris Yeltsin's use of tanks against his own Parliament and his dispatch of troops to Chechnya a year later.

  • When you press down on top of the pump, two separate substances emerge from two separate and concealed tanks.

  • They sound like the sort of thing that appeals mainly to rich old men (and conservative think tanks are, of course, mainly funded by rich old men).

  • There are other signs as well: the rise of the Cato Institute as one of the leading Washington think tanks; and the general accrual of credibility to what, 20 years ago, was a fringe-y movement of Ayn Rand devotees and risqué Republicans.


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