eighteen-wheeler

[ey-teen-hwee-ler, -wee-]

noun

1. a large tractor-trailer, usually having ten wheels on the cab and eight on the trailer.

Example Sentences

In the dead of night last April, state drug agents in Oklahoma intercepted an eighteen-wheeler rumbling east toward the Arkansas border smuggling 7,000 pounds of marijuana hidden in security camera boxes.

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If his second trip to Climate Pledge Arena is as showstopping as his 2022 concert, when he converted an eighteen-wheeler into a stage, it’s likely to be one of the biggest parties of the year.

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Upon her return, Ms. Russell told investigators that she had been forced into a car and then into an eighteen-wheeler before she escaped, only to be abducted again and put in a car, the police said.

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She told investigators that night that she had been forced into a car and then an eighteen-wheeler before she escaped, only to be abducted again and put in a car, Chief Nicholas Derzis of the Hoover Police Department said at a news conference on Wednesday.

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In the world of electric vehicles, an eighteen-wheeler is like a swimming pool — and the connections available at today’s highway stops are akin to garden hoses.

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