tanker

Example Sentences

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Meanwhile, the U.S. seized an Iran-linked oil tanker in the Indian Ocean overnight, according to three American officials.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

Only one liquefied natural gas tanker carrying Qatari gas to Pakistan crossed, on May 12.

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

Roughly a fifth of global fuel exports have been disrupted, despite some clandestine tanker transits and pipeline throughput.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

But investors had hoped for more progress toward reopening the crucial strait, where oil tanker traffic has ground to a near standstill since the outbreak of the war, sending energy prices soaring.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

As Ignatius was considering the delight which the little baseball game afforded humanity, the two sad and covetous eyes moved toward him through the crowd like torpedoes zeroing in on a great woolly tanker.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole