Vehicle with a hatch on top

Usage examples of tank.

A vacuum attached to the tank lowers the internal pressure, turning the acetone to a gas and drawing it from the body.

A man on Venus, unless equipped with special breathing apparatus and oxygen tanks, would die of acidosis within a few minutes.

The last blast caused a jam rise on the bow planes maybe blew some gases into the aft ballast tanks.

The explosion blew apart what had been left of the superstructure, taking with it the masts and antennae as the ship erupted into flames amidships, the fire migrating aft to the fuel tanks, where ruptured fuel lines spewed volatile fuel for the gas turbines into the bilges.

With a howl from the fan room aft, the huge displacement blower began blowing the ballast tanks dry.

The Soviets are attacking the airfield with tanks and infantry, and are less than a mile away.

The road to his house was nothing more than a stretch of dirt and gravel with a ribbon of grass down the middle, and his jeep sounded like an army tank as it jolted all over the place.

But for anyone walking through streets lined with poinciana, allamanda, frangipani, and coconut palms, or along the most picturesque of waterfronts with its turtle tanks, pelicans, cormorants, and twenty-thousand-dollar boats, death would have seemed a very distant prospect.

Clipper One arrived back over the target the first irregular line of amphibious tanks, also called amtracs or LVTs or alligators, were churning and bucking the sea only a mile offshore.

The pale, exquisite body seemed quite empty like an anencephalic clone grown in a transplant tank.

In 1976, a tank truck went off an elevated freeway, exploded and released 19 tons of anhydrous ammonia, killing seven people.

One lab looked like a pet shop given over to aquarists with a couple hundred fish tanks lining the walls and situated on most of the tables, as well.

Sanders complimented Aragon, as the latter changed fuel tanks to preserve the balance of the craft.

He wedged the rubberized flashlight between two outcroppings of aragonite, and in its beam attached the mask to the air tank, grunting with pain as he tightened the connections with his flayed fingers.

She hurried after Arak, purposefully avoiding looking into any of the other tanks.