cattle truck
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
The Final Journey by Gudrun Pausewang takes place almost entirely in a cattle truck with families going to Auschwitz, and spares the readers nothing, says Fox.
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2011
He stood in the corral behind the cattle and waved his arms at them until one by one they hesitantly stepped into the back of the cattle truck.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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