Supertanker is an English word with synonyms like oiler or tanker. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Supertanker meaning
An extremely large tanker ship.
Using Supertanker
- The main meaning on this page is: An extremely large tanker ship.
- Useful related words include: oil tanker, oiler, tanker, tank ship.
- In the example corpus, supertanker often appears in combinations such as: iranian supertanker, grace supertanker, the supertanker.
Context around Supertanker
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 7 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Supertanker
- In this selection, "supertanker" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, iranian, near, 747, grace, allegedly and mercopressget stand out and add context to how "supertanker" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include an iranian supertanker allegedly bound and an iranian supertanker by british. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "supertanker" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with supertanker
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Gibraltar Police arrest two officers of the Grace 1 supertanker — MercoPressGet our news on your inbox! (16 words)
But despite its size Valdez says he and the Global Supertanker can’t do it alone. (16 words)
Bolivia has hired a Boeing 747 "supertanker" from the US to drop water, and accepted an offer of aid from G7 leaders. (22 words)
A British Royal Navy ship (L) patrols near supertanker Grace 1, which is suspected of carrying Iranian crude oil to Syria in violation of EU sanctions, after it was detained off the coast of Gibraltar on July 4, 2019. (39 words)
The Gibraltar high court decided on Thursday to release the Iranian supertanker after a fierce legal battle, in which President Trump’s administration wanted to nudge the UK further into its pocket, but came out with a bruising humiliation. (39 words)
In the month since the release, US-Iranian relations have taken several turns for the worse, including Iran's downing of a US drone and the capture last week of an Iranian supertanker by British forces. (36 words)
Gibraltar Police arrest two officers of the Grace 1 supertanker — MercoPressGet our news on your inbox! (16 words)
Example sentences (16)
In turn that encounter constituted Tehran’s reply to British actions in the Mediterranean Sea, where Royal Marines detained an Iranian supertanker allegedly bound for Syria in breach of European Union sanctions.
You can get 10 smaller aircraft drops with more retardant and more coverage for the same price as Mobilizing the supertanker, Not even having it fly.
A British Royal Navy ship (L) patrols near supertanker Grace 1, which is suspected of carrying Iranian crude oil to Syria in violation of EU sanctions, after it was detained off the coast of Gibraltar on July 4, 2019.
A view of the Grace 1—now known as Adrian Darya 1—supertanker is seen through the sea fog, in the British territory of Gibraltar, on Aug. 15, 2019.
Bolivia has hired a Boeing 747 "supertanker" from the US to drop water, and accepted an offer of aid from G7 leaders.
Gibraltar Police arrest two officers of the Grace 1 supertanker — MercoPressGet our news on your inbox!
In the month since the release, US-Iranian relations have taken several turns for the worse, including Iran's downing of a US drone and the capture last week of an Iranian supertanker by British forces.
Iran made assurances to a court in Gibraltar that it would not deliver the seized supertanker’s two million barrels of crude oil to the Syrian regime in order to secure its release.
The Gibraltar government has confirmed that the US Department of Justice made a last-minute request to halt the release of the seized Iranian supertanker on a number of allegations.
The Gibraltar Government on Thursday released the Iranian supertanker Grace 1, which was seized on July 4 on suspicion it was shipping 2.1m barrels of crude oil to Syria in breach of EU sanctions.
The Gibraltar high court decided on Thursday to release the Iranian supertanker after a fierce legal battle, in which President Trump’s administration wanted to nudge the UK further into its pocket, but came out with a bruising humiliation.
The Grace 1 supertanker, which is carrying 2.1m barrels of oil, was detained on July 4 on suspicion of illegally transporting oil to Syria.
The legal action thrust the Grace 1 supertanker into the heart of tensions between Washington and Tehran a day after a dispute over its fate between Britain and Iran had apparently been resolved.
The ship's seizure came weeks after the U.K. captured Iran's Panamanian-flagged Grace 1 supertanker in the Strait of Gibraltar.
But despite its size Valdez says he and the Global Supertanker can’t do it alone.
The supertanker Torrey Canyon ran aground off the coast of Cornwall in 1967 causing the first major oil leak that killed marine life along the coast.
Common combinations with supertanker
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: