tank truck

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noun

a truck with a tank body, suitable for transporting gases or liquids, as oil, gasoline, or milk, in bulk.

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QUIZ YOURSELF ON "WAS" VS. "WERE"!

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“Was” is used for the indicative past tense of “to be,” and “were” is only used for the subjunctive past tense.

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Instead, the man and woman in the truck wanted to know where the crash site was and whether would I show them.
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“When Tanveer realized what was happening, he jumped out of the truck, but the Iranians shot him,” Abdullah says.
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“The events this year with Ukraine led to his ties with Cato being severed,” a source at the think tank told The Daily Beast.
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Each well requires 1,500—2,000 truck trips over the lifetime of the well.
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Tank Battle Kim's death -- a clean version of Kim's Face shot (no head burning or head exploding).
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It wur Tom Wurmsee led me; I wuz gwine ter move his truck fur him this arternoon.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
As long as an emergency truck could squeeze through at moderate speed, that was enough.
Fee of the Frontier|Horace Brown Fyfe
Dis whole job is a pipe, wit' us havin' a Monitor gun to open dat armored truck.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various
He saw that the back door of the armored truck was opening and another guard was getting out.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various
He put all his doctor truck into his gasoline wagon last night and choo-chooed outen town.
Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher|Eleanor Gates