lightening
Example Sentences
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“One of the vessels that we went to was showing that it was in Curaçao, but it was really off of Venezuela, and it was lightering oil there.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 15, 2026
"If we go through the lightering process, I suspect we're talking weeks," he said.
From BBC • Mar. 27, 2021
"If we go through the lightering process, I suspect we're talking weeks."
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2021
But he said the emptying of the barge Sunday, a process known as lightering as contents are transferred to other vessels, was equally significant.
From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2014
He was a slave, and was employed, before the river was deepened so as to admit of the passage of large vessels up to the town, in lightering cargoes to the wharves.
From Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time by Gilmore, James R.
