Tanks always seem to take it into their heads to collapse on a main road and interrupt traffic," muttered the colonel sardonically.
And there were many tanks also that were adorned with swans and Karandavas and Chakravakas (Brahminy ducks) in the grounds lying about the mansion.
And, O king, at the command of king Yudhishthira the just, mansions were assigned to all those monarchs, that were full of various kinds of edibles and adorned with tanks and tall trees.
Subjugating them by a policy of conciliation, the Kuru prince beheld (in that region) that excellent of lakes called Manasa and various other lakes and tanks sacred to the Rishis.
Are large tanks and lakes constructed all over thy kingdom at proper distances, without agriculture being in thy realm entirely dependent on the showers of heaven?
The tanks below are at least equally old with the town, having a casing of hewn stone, now much dilapidated, and large stone troughs for watering cattle.
It is difficult to understand how these tanks get filled, for they seem to have no drainage leading to them, being on the contrary perched up generally on high ground.
The tanksof rising holders are constructed in two different ways.
The "Acetylite" generator made by this firm consists of an equalising gasholder and one or more generating tanksplaced alongside it.
The construction of annular tanksor the insertion of a "dummy" may be attended with difficulty if the tank is wholly or partly sunk below the ground level, owing to the lifting force of water in the surrounding soil.
Always keep water-tanks and water-seals filled with clean water.
The generating tanks are provided with sludge-cocks and a tap for drawing off condensed water.
The streets are from three to fifteen feet wide, and boxes, tubs, tanks and pails, used by storekeepers to show their goods, encroach even on this limited space.
Some of the beautifully colored fish swimming about the glass tanks look more like pretty birds than fish.
The latex collected is put in tanks five feet long and six inches wide.
The floors of thesetanks are covered with 8 inches of zinc shavings.
By improved arrangements light is admitted from above, passing through the water in the tanks and illuminating their contents, while the spectator is in comparative darkness.
With a whizzing, purring sound the motors started, and the ballast tanks filled with a succession of sucking gurgles.
The men moved quietly to their stations and the tanks were blown.
They took him into their vehicle, and deftly matched and replenished the waning gas mixture in the cylindrical tanks on his back.
This has led to the use of the "holding" process in which the milk is heated to the desired temperature and then placed in tanks where it remains at this temperature for any desired time.
In such a machine the milk is first heated in a continuous heater, and is then passed into large tanks in which it is allowed to remain for the desired time, and from which it flows over the coolers.
Numerous tanks were ready, but only a few actually used; the masses of infantry alone ensured the victory.
It is one of the places where the American tanks performed wonders, taking the position in less than half an hour.
After coming under fire from riflemen and machine gunners, one of its supporting tanks was disabled by a mine.
Illustration: On the night of 24-25 July, a Japanese counterattack accompanied by tanks failed completely with heavy losses.
They dropped theirtanks at extremely low altitudes--50 feet in some cases--and were highly vulnerable to ground fire.
Lieutenant Jim Lucas, a professional reporter who enlisted in the Marine Corps shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor and was commissioned in the field, was there: The three lead tanks broke through our wall of fire.
It could be dropped in wing or belly tanks attached to the underside of an aircraft and was fired by an igniter on contact with the ground.
Flamethrowing tanks worked over the caves, allowing engineers to seal them up with demolition charges.
Some appraisers of this action believe only five tanks were involved.
With the help oftanks and armored amphibians operating offshore this problem was overcome.
In any case, the destruction of these tanks did not end the fight on the right flank.
The tanks had gotten into action early that morning, leading the 24th in tank-infantry attacks.
The Marines suffered several casualties and one of their tanks was disabled in this fight.
The remains of the stone buildings, water tanksand wells, are still to be seen.
If we have to burn that oil we can fill the tanks with salt water and still keep ballasted.
My friends thought I was almost crazy to have such big tanks put aboard to hold gasoline.
We looked up at the hill and the tanks were just coming out of the woods toward us.
The first few weeks I spent polishing the reclaiming tanks on the ground floor.
During flight the wing tanks had to be used first as they were dropped at the first sighting of enemy aircraft.
You could start it again by switching tanks and putting the nose down, but you couldn't afford to have that happen in combat.
These tanks and the 50 gallon tank that was located right behind the pilot plus the tanks in the wings were the reason the P-51 could stay in the air about six hours and was able to escort the bombers all the way to Berlin and back.
You had to remember, even in combat, to keep switching the tanks to keep the plane's weight distributed equally and also to keep the tank From running dry, causing the engine to quit.
If he could reach Mexican Tanks with it, the money would be safe, for a small post of soldiers and government scouts guarded the place.
Eighty acres are intersected by grand avenues with immense walls of clipped beech, ending in summer-houses, statues, vases, or tanks walled in with stone and surrounded by statues and vases of flowers.
It was a sanatorium of Merton Abbey, and the quaint old fish-tanks of the monks remain.
This place, which the William Lowthers have bought, in the flat corn-lands of Suffolk, has a fine old garden, with clipped yew hedges and long tanks like Wrest.
A vast amount of their production went into tanks and Stukas; another segment went into export goods to be traded for strategic materials; and only a small amount went for food and the comforts of life.
The tanks were very much handicapped by the dense fog, and lost direction, operating on the flanks, with the exception of two, which nearly ran down a number of our battalion when they went through us at the start.
From our embankment we watched some tanks coming out of action, and at 6.
Tanks were to be used in conjunction with the infantry, and in order to become acquainted with their peculiarities we attended a demonstration by the Tank Corps at Mailly, which was most instructive.
To drown the curses of the weary troops as well as the approach of the tanks it had been arranged with great forethought, for a flight of heavy bombing planes to operate during the night in this area.
Steel tanks will not rust as rapidly as iron, but the scale is more apt to flake off by the expansion and contraction of the metal, taking the paint with it.
For a quicker method of painting tanks I send a sample marked No.
If possible let tanks get thoroughly rusted, then scrape off scale and rust with files sharpened to a chisel edge, rub down large surfaces with sandstone, and use No.
The villagers had a story that thesetanks were the work of a mighty giant, Bheema, with whose aid and that of his brethren they had been excavated in a single night.
In some of the tanks which are not so let, and where the native proprietor preserves the fish, first-class sport can be had.
In the vicinity hares were numerous, and in the thick jungle bordering the tanks in places, and consisting mostly of nurkool and wild rose, hog-deer and wild pig were abundant.
When I was down in Bhaugulpore, I went out frequently fishing in the various tanksand streams near my factory.
If a ship has plenty of water in its casks ortanks in its hold, it does not matter whether it is sailing through fresh water or salt.
There were bond issues now to float, stock to be marketed, contracts for supplies to be awarded, actual reservoirs and tanks to be built, and pipes to be laid.
Quickly he joined the ends of the tubes from the tanks to the metal hook, the oxygen tank being joined to two of the tubes of the hook, and the second tank being joined to the other.
Out of the tanks stout tubes led, with stop-cocks and gauges at the top.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tanks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
