oiler

Example Sentences

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The memo calls for Navy Secretary John Phelan to select a new name for the fleet oiler.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2025

These were oiler, flatter and a great deal chewier.

From The Guardian • May 13, 2020

A U.S. destroyer and oiler sailed through in January, and a destroyer and survey ships steamed through in November.

From Washington Times • Feb. 27, 2019

Yukon, a replenishment oiler, collided during a refueling exercise west of Hawaii.

From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2017

“Your Royal Highness—” “Do you oiler me freedom?”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson