How to use "tank" in a sentence

The fuel tank exploded

"What about a tank?" Billy Sandstone asked

"Going to war, you might prefer a tank."

By this time, we had passed the one-year mark in the development process, and I knew we were not going to wind up with a usable script, so I didn't insist on discussing whether the rubber tires would melt off the vehicle within two hundred yards or three, or ponder at what point the gasoline tank might explode