Collocations for "tank"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "tank" in context.
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tank
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- sent in the tanks and troops
- the tanks [fired on, crushed, destroyed]
- need to clean the fish tank
- a shark tank
- a tank of [water, fuel, oil]
- a [water] tank
- need to fill up the tank
- the tank is almost [full, empty]
- still [three] gallons in the tank
- a [50-gallon] tank
- a [storage, reserve] tank
- runs a think tank
- slang: had to spend a night in the tank
- slang: got thrown in the tank
- figurative: (the runner) has nothing left in the tank
- he tanked the [match, race, competition, exam]
- she tanked during the [match]
- the [stock market, economy, prices, business] tanked
- tanked because of [poor sales, the war]
- tanked on [Monday]
- tanked in [June 2015]
- tank up the [car, truck, motorcycle]
- tank up on [fuel, supplies]
- a tank engine
- a tank capacity of [fifty gallons]
- wearing tank tops
- is the tank commander
'tank' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
beef
- bleed
- capacity
- caterpillar
- conception
- developer
- developing
- empty
- excess
- exhaust
- fill
- fish
- fuel
- full
- funnel
- gas
- grid
- heavy
- hit
- limit
- lobster
- mine
- overflow
- petrol
- plate
- post
- pressure
- proof
- raid
- refill
- remit
- replacement
- ripple
- solid
- spring
- steel
- stripped
- support
- think
- thrust
- top
- train
- windshield
- withdrawal