cattle truck
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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He was sent to Poland in a cattle truck, where he worked in a coal mine, but worse was to come.
From BBC • Nov. 6, 2023
In 1941 the family was deported, taken by cattle truck to a ghetto in Mogilev-Podolsk, Ukraine.
From Washington Post • Jan. 2, 2019
A few days later, there was a cattle truck accident, some died and some were staggering around hurt, and I thought, “OK, I’m vegetarian.”
From The Guardian • Sep. 11, 2016
Five minutes later, surely, all those people smashed themselves shoulder-to-shoulder into the human equivalent of a cattle truck.
From Time • Dec. 5, 2014
I rode a cattle truck from Marsabit to Nairobi, just the way I had for my interview.
From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola
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