camion
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Buy a gift, some kind of gift: a box of chocolate, a strand of pearls, an eau de parfum that fell off the back of a camion de livraison—all are worthy options.
From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2014
The word "camion" in Spanish usually refers to an 18-wheeler, but in Mexico it means "bus."
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 2011
The ambulance drivers—Singer and Hughes—neglecting to unlock the ambulance doors, ran up the road and began working with the drivers of the camion to get the great van on the road again.
From The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me by White, William Allen
Roaring with heavy wheels, grinding with gears, throbbing with motors, camion after camion went by, slowly, stridently.
From One Man's Initiation—1917 by Dos Passos, John
In the camion sat Sheila O’Leary, late of the old San and later yet of the American Military Hospital No. 10.
From Leerie by Sawyer, Ruth
Along the poplar-flickering roads south of Paris last week rolled two camions each bearing an enormous head.
From Time Magazine Archive
We passed other camions on the road and I looked at the country.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
At 10 o'clock the same night camions were rumbling up, and after all the men had found places, started toward the fateful Marne.
And since then the Government has let the camions that go through to the front, leave bread and meat and once a bag of potatoes for us.
From Home Fires in France by Canfield, Dorothy
About eleven the big convoy of camions on the way to the front came through, lurching along the improvised road laid out across the fields.
From Home Fires in France by Canfield, Dorothy
