tanker

Example Sentences

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To gain confidence in a positive economic outlook scenario, he is looking for tangible signs such as insurance rates falling to more reasonable rates and tanker owners allowing their ships to go through the region.

From Barron's • Apr. 17, 2026

Per the BBC, oil and gas tanker companies aren’t rushing to run through the strait, telling the broadcaster that the news “doesn’t change anything.”

From Slate • Apr. 17, 2026

To move sanctioned barrels, the regime leaned heavily on its shadow fleet—a clandestine tanker network used to evade sanctions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

The Iranian-flagged container ship Kashan, which sailed from the port of Bandar Abbas, and the tanker Simba V have both been sanctioned by the US for links with Iran.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

Enrique flees from car to car, more than twenty in all, struggling to keep his footing each time he leaps from a hopper to a fuel tanker, which is lower and has a rounded top.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario