How to Use supertanker in a Sentence
supertanker
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As Mostert wrote those words, the brief golden age of the supertanker was already ending.
—The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
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The fire broke out around 7 p.m. Friday when lightning struck one of the crude storage deposits at a supertanker base in northwestern Cuba, some 55 miles east of Havana.
—María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2022
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As an indicator of persistent weakness, one-year supertanker rentals now cost a third less than a year ago, according to Braemar.
—Collin Eaton, WSJ, 1 July 2021
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China is on an oil-supertanker hiring spree, a sign energy demand has sped up after the world’s second-largest economy limped out of its Covid-19 lockdowns.
—Costas Paris and Joe Wallace, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2023
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Aguilar’s interest in politics and current events began when the Exxon Valdez oil supertanker spewed nearly 11 million gallons of oil into Alaska’s coastal waters.
—Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2023
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To arrive at the Los Angeles refinery, crude oil is transported in supertanker ships that dock at special berths at Southern California ports.
—Ingrid Lobet, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2021
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In a shock dismissal, Volkswagen Group’s board of directors fired the carmaker’s chief executive best known for steering the supertanker around in favor of a bright new future manufacturing electric vehicles.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 22 July 2022
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