tank farm

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noun

an area or expanse of land used for holding oil-storage tanks.

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Origin of tank farm

First recorded in 1920–25

Words nearby tank farm

tank car, tank destroyer, tanked, tank engine, tanker, tank farm, tank farming, tank fighter, tankful, tankini, tank locomotive

How to use tank farm in a sentence

As of Wednesday morning, McCauley said, tank farms in Baltimore, Springfield and Fairfax had enough fuel supplied by Colonial, but there weren’t enough drivers to get it from the storage facilities to gas stations.
Panic buying strikes Southeastern United States as shuttered pipeline resumes operations|Will Englund, Ellen Nakashima|May 12, 2021|Washington Post
They were just way too aggressive to try and maintain on a farm here,” says Gow of his “Nazi cows.
‘Nazi Cows’ Tried to Kill British Farmer|Tom Sykes|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
“The events this year with Ukraine led to his ties with Cato being severed,” a source at the think tank told The Daily Beast.
Vaclav Klaus, Libertarian Hero, Has His Wings Clipped by Cato Institute|James Kirchick|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But they are serious: what large-scale fracking does is change small farm towns into industrial sites.
New York’s Conservative Fracking Ban|Jay Michaelson|December 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Tank Battle Kim's death -- a clean version of Kim's Face shot (no head burning or head exploding).
Sony Emails Show How the Studio Plans to Censor Kim Jong Un Assassination Comedy ‘The Interview’|William Boot|December 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Tank Battle Jeep Guard Crush -- some editorial changes and the removal of all blood when the guards are crushed by the tank.
Sony Emails Show How the Studio Plans to Censor Kim Jong Un Assassination Comedy ‘The Interview’|William Boot|December 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The evening previous to his death he was walking about the farm, in the full possession of all his faculties of mind and body.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
Van Twiller was himself a grower of the plant and had his tobacco farm at Greenwich.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.
Could this man, who had been sent out to take care of Indians, get back his San Pasquale farm for him?
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
We did plan a great trip—father and mother and Tim and I—we were going to England together when the farm showed a surplus.
The Soldier of the Valley|Nelson Lloyd
The road led to an old fashioned, high gabled farm-house at the foot of the hill; the only tenement visible from that lonely spot.
The World Before Them|Susanna Moodie