How to Use tank in a Sentence

tank

1 of 2 noun
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  • Divers come by three times a week to clean the tank and feed the fish.
    — Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The crew sets up a shot of fire ants rafting in a tank.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Hundreds of people, young and old, crowd the road in front of the tank.
    — Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • When the truck flipped, water and fish poured out of its tank.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
  • There's also a nice LED to show how much juice is left in the tank.
    — Brenda Stolyar, WIRED, 27 Nov. 2023
  • The explosion was caused by a tank mine buried in the road, the report said.
    — Anton Troianovski, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
  • Some divers bring all their own gear (except the dive tanks).
    — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 6 May 2023
  • The Commendatore, as he’s called, looks more like a tank.
    — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023
  • Choose from black or white and leave it open over a simple tank, or do the French tuck with a pair of jeans.
    — Bridget Degnan, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The smoke was filmed in a tank, and the shot was put back together as a composite.
    — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Next to the barrel, minnow-sized tilapia swim in a smaller fish tank.
    — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Sotelo stopped on the shoulder of the freeway to fill up his tank, and his wife and young child came out to help him.
    — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
  • To use it, fill the 96-ounce tank with water and a cleaning solution, then use the brush to spot clean.
    — Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 10 Sep. 2023
  • One piece of the hydrogen tank’s dome, about a foot square, ended up a few feet away.
    — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The explosion was caused by a tank mine buried in the road, the television report said.
    — Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 6 May 2023
  • For example, a fish tank in the apartment is front and center in some of the scenes, and seems to mirror the lives of the migrants.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Parts of two or three propane tanks jettisoned 50 feet away.
    — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Then again, the whole idea of free seasons and free heroes is in part what made games like Avengers tank on the revenue side.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • To channel this creepy movie grab a little black dress or a red tank with a leather jacket.
    — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Vlad said his grandmother was put on a tank and his mother on a bus.
    — USA Today, 31 May 2023
  • For those five long decades, Lolita lived and performed twice daily in a cramped tank.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Mix and match the skirt with a white tank or pair it with matching bandeau for a punchy monochromatic look.
    — Sophie Dweck, townandcountrymag.com, 18 May 2023
  • Smoke poured into the basement, along with water from a burst tank upstairs.
    — Hannah Allam, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2023
  • As for the battered décor, the Raoul brothers ejected the Chianti bottles on the tables, but kept the rest: the bar, the booths, the tin ceilings and walls, and the fish tank at the back.
    — Penelope Green, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The crossroads had long been a stop where truckers filled their fuel tanks and their bellies.
    — Markian Hawryluk, CBS News, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The Guest in Residence founder wore a cropped white ribbed sweater tank paired with loose-fitting beige-and-white pinstripe pants.
    — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 May 2023
  • Don’t have fire logs, propane tanks or untreated wood decks near a structure.
    — Jeastman, oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2023
  • In cracking what a giant futuristic tank would sound like, Aadahl noticed there was a void in the tread of the tank.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Faced with a slim parking spot, the car rotates in place as the wheels move independently, like a tank.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Tonopah, Nevada The drive between Ely and Tonopah can be long and lonely, so make sure to leave with a full tank of gas and plenty of food and water.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 11 Sep. 2023
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tank

2 of 2 verb
  • Some people have accused her of tanking.
  • Some people say she deliberately tanked the match.
  • In this case, profits could tank and the stock could sink.
    — Q.ai - Make Genius Money Moves, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2022
  • The Orioles tanked and now they are bound for the playoffs.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The stress and despair from that journey alone tanked her health.
    — Brianna Sacks, Anchorage Daily News, 17 July 2023
  • The show’s fans tanked the bar’s Yelp reviews and were harassing the staff.
    — Irina Aleksander, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Every team knows how to tank without having to float a bribe to the coach to lose games.
    — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 2 Aug. 2022
  • But no, the Patriots shouldn’t tank two games into the season.
    — Christopher Price, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The franchise dumb enough to tank for a franchise quarterback isn’t smart enough to build around him.
    — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 20 Nov. 2021
  • The pile-on continued and some said this could tank her chances of running for office in the future.
    — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The Fed could still tank the economy by keeping rates too high for too long.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 28 July 2023
  • It was supposed to be the Jazz, Pacers, and Spurs, but only the Spurs appear ready to tank the season.
    — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Dec. 2022
  • Blanchett’s tirade against the awards-show machine was seen by some as tanking her chances at Oscar gold.
    — Vulture, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Across the country, home sales have tanked as buyers and sellers alike are turned off by a big rise in mortgage rates.
    — Lance Lambert, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Week 1 is also too early to start tanking for Caleb Williams or Drake Maye.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Frustrated users tanked One’s rating on Google Play from 4.6 to 2.8 stars.
    — Craig Silverman, ProPublica, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Remember when Baidu launched its Ernie Bot with edited videos and its shares tanked?
    — Emilia David, The Verge, 7 Dec. 2023
  • The 2022 results soured a lot of voters on what Trump could do to tank the party yet another time.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 13 July 2023
  • This isn't the first time McConnell has seen Republicans tank their own races.
    — Douglas Heye, CNN, 26 Jan. 2022
  • The complaint argues that the purchase tanked the company’s share price.
    — Bylila MacLellan, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The players hope gains on the other end of the spectrum will help offset teams continuing to tank.
    — Jared Diamond, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Some of the market's sharpest drops again came from the financial industry, where stocks tanked for a second day.
    — Stan Choe, ajc, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Lastly, don’t assume the annoyances of the day before will tank the new day before you.
    — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Come the postseason, however, those numbers tank across the board.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2023
  • With nine council members, a couple or even as many as four no votes would not tank Woodfin’s budget.
    — Joseph D. Bryant | Jbryant@al.com, al, 27 June 2023
  • The Cards, who seem to be actively tanking, took down the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday, 28-16.
    — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2023
  • In other words, the Braves won because other teams decided to tank.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 13 Nov. 2021
  • White’s probe found that the Dolphins did not intentionally tank to lose games in 2019.
    — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Trump tried, unsuccessfully, to tank him once out of spite.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 4 Oct. 2022
  • What the decision to go back to Ryan should also make crystal clear is that the Colts are not and never were trying to tank the season.
    — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 14 Nov. 2022

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