eighteen-wheeler
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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“A power line was hanging across the road and an eighteen-wheeler truck ran into it and got hung up in it and the Benton officer got there to help him,” Whittington said.
From Fox News • Jan. 11, 2020
Two eighteen-wheeler trucks containing 35 massive crates and boxes pull up to Avant Gardner, an event space on the border of Brooklyn and Queens.
From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2019
She took a sip of Gatorade as she whizzed past an eighteen-wheeler.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 2, 2018
Braseth had the 3-ton sculpture lifted onto an eighteen-wheeler and trucked to Seattle, where Fabrication Specialties of Seattle's South Park neighborhood sandblasted it and replaced the plumbing.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 23, 2012
It’s not eight o’clock yet, but there’s a parking lot full of cars, an eighteen-wheeler full of boxes, and a line stretched out the door.
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
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