cattle truck
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The convoy was driven in a cattle truck to a refugee reception centre last month, which was set up at the East Warsaw railway station in Poland to help Ukrainians fleeing the conflict.
From BBC ● May 4, 2022
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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