motor truck
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of motor truck
First recorded in 1915–20
Example Sentences
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Her family had started and run the post office in the tiny community of Isom and her grandmother’s father had the first motor truck in town.
From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2022
Even the women of the office forces were given a place, riding in a big motor truck with the inscription, “some of Uncle Sam’s Best Girls.”
From Slate • Jun. 20, 2020
A rolling kitchen and a motor truck filled with supplies followed them, and there was an ambulance with well-trained male nurses to look after sore and swollen feet.
From Time Magazine Archive
Red General Mao did nothing so risky as to come on the junket in person, but jouncing along in a motor truck over spring-breaking roads came Red Finance Commissar Lin Po-chu.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a small maroon motor truck with the name in gilt letters on the sides and the man making preparations to wash it wasn’t Frank, the nice young man with rosy cheeks.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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