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gasoline tank

n. a tank for holding gasoline to supply a vehicle [syn: gas tank]

Usage examples of "gasoline tank".

He knocked the drain plug out of the bottom of the gasoline tank and let the remaining fuel run into the sandy soil, to prevent a lucky shot torching the vehicle and Timon with een around the back it.

A tangle of cars and a large gasoline tank truck lay in the midst of a spreading pool of fire.

This meant the laser beam was targeted perfectly on the base of the gasoline tank three miles away.

On a chance entirely I asked the man in charge of the gasoline tank at the Monarch if he had heard of an accident nearby on the night of the tragedy.

Dale had just been leaving for a walk, and the sheriff walked down to where Dale had paused near the large gasoline tank behind the generator shed.

A massive crane stood before the ruined structure, surrounded by stacks of brick and pipe, a bulldozer, storage shacks, a few trucks, a two-hundred-gallon gasoline tank and a pair of construction trailers.

Four bursts later, the truck's gasoline tank blew and the truck billowed into a raging ball of flames.

The young agent had been working as he talked, checking the outboard motor, checking the connections to the gasoline tank, and pumping pressure into it.

Then some one shot holes in the gasoline tank of one of the cars and threw a lighted match.