Sentence examples for large tanker from inspiring English sources

A decade ago, the government had 44 large tanker planes at its command.

A large tanker ship ran aground on the city's Staten Island.

Firefighters use a large tanker truck and sometimes must draft water from local ponds.

Supertanker, large tanker or cargo ship, commonly an oil-carrying vessel that might exceed 500,000 tons deadweight.

"Whale-watching boards are more likely to report because they would feel a significant bump, but a large tanker may not notice it.

The base is also the home of large tanker aircraft that are used for in-air refueling of fighter planes on combat missions over Afghanistan.

TEEKAY SHIPPING, the Bahamas, owner of midsize oil tankers, said it would buy half of Skaugen Petrotrans, Houston, which transfers crude from large tankers to smaller vessels.

The same ideas are used to steer automatically large tankers transporting crude oil, for which even slight gains in efficiency result in large financial savings.

The principal trade routes for large tankers en route from the Persian Gulf to the Strait of Malacca pass south of the Bay of Bengal.

Large tankers meeting these requirements are in service on the Alaska-California route, but few are available for additional shipping, according to government reports.

They are holding around ten vessels, including three large tankers with 130 crewmen captured this week.Foreign governments still wrangle over Africa's worst humanitarian and political crisis.