oil tanker

noun

: a large ship that carries oil

Examples of oil tanker in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Salvagers have begun towing away the burning oil tanker, hoping to avoid a catastrophic leak of its cargo of 1 million barrels of oil. Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2024 The Marine Spill Response Corporation, founded in 1990 after the oil tanker Exxon Valdez dumped 11 million gallons of oil into Alaska’s Prince William Sound, is a nonprofit organization that was established to meet congressional requirements for high reliability in the oil and gas industry. Caitlin Rivers, Foreign Affairs, 2 July 2024 Stories from around the world A crippled oil tanker in the Red Sea raised fears of an environmental catastrophe. Hunter Clauss, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2024 Both can pose problems: The pieces of an uncontrolled falling rocket could crash anywhere, but letting the rocket body drift in a crowded part of space is like releasing a leaking oil tanker in an already polluted river, since the pollution will eventually become much, much worse. Ramin Skibba, Rolling Stone, 6 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for oil tanker 

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“Oil tanker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oil%20tanker. Accessed 4 Nov. 2024.

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