Example Sentences

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Tankers that make it through the blockade can still be loaded, even if they remain trapped in the Gulf, stretching Iran’s tank-tops deadline.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

For humans, staying warm in the winter often means swapping out flimsy tank-tops for thick parkas.

From BBC • Oct. 5, 2022

ZELENODILSK, Ukraine — Their uniforms are dusty jeans and tank-tops, and they drive tractors, not tanks, along the frontline in Russia’s war in Ukraine.

From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2022

Under Ms. Rowland, the bar maintained fairly strict decorum: no tank-tops after dark, no profanity at the pool table.

From Washington Post • Jul. 1, 2022

Beach boys dressed in tank-tops and shorts were my classmates in undergraduate seminars.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez