8 sentences with 'tank'
Example sentences and phrases with the word tank and other words derived from it.
• « They placed the fuel tank on top of the engine, so that the gasoline would flow by gravity into the engine. »
• « The best known technique involves suspending a person in a tank of water at the same temperature as the body (to minimise sensations of weight and temperature), blindfolding them and plugging their ears. Their arms are placed in tubes so that they cannot move them. »
• « Dennis Martin, a volunteer firefighter from Jefferson County, held the valve on the tank used to fill the air bags. »
• « The French in particular failed to realise the potential of tank warfare: they treated tanks more as mobile artillery platforms than as weapons in their own right, and had no armoured divisions, only tanks interspersed with infantry divisions. »
• « Near the end of the third day, Private Bradish and four of his friends were in a Bradley fighting vehicle. Suddenly an Iraqi tank appeared and fired a shell that pierced the Bradley, causing damage to the interior and wounding all five occupants. »
• « He managed to drag one of his comrades out of the burning vehicle just as another fighting vehicle accounted for the enemy tank. »
• « With every tank of gas he dispensed, Mr. Simpson would give, at no extra charge, some advice on the seasons of life. »