camion
noun
a truck used for carrying freight or military supplies, equipment, and troops.
camions
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pluralof camion.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Along the poplar-flickering roads south of Paris last week rolled two camions each bearing an enormous head.
From Time Magazine Archive
We passed other camions on the road and I looked at the country.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
Almost immediately we turned into the Verdun route we met again the caravan of automobiles, of camions, as the French say.
From They Shall Not Pass by Frank H. (Frank Herbert) Simonds
Every little while, slithering through the rain, splashing mud to the right and left, a convoy of camions went by and disappeared, truck after truck, in the white streaming rain.
From One Man's Initiation—1917 by John Dos Passos
Coming from the other direction with throbbing of motors, a convoy of camions, huge black oblongs, grinds down the other side of the road.
From One Man's Initiation—1917 by John Dos Passos
