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
In the war of 1870 he drove a team instead of a camion.
From "I was there" with the Yanks on the western front, 1917-1919 by Baukhage, Hilmar R. (Hilmar Robert)
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
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
All along the route nationale, as far as I could see with my field-glass, stood the grey camions.
From On the Edge of the War Zone From the Battle of the Marne to the Entrance of the Stars and Stripes by Aldrich, Mildred
Here the Americans alighted to see seemingly endless streams of French "camions" go by.
From Uncle Sam's Boys with Pershing's Troops Dick Prescott at Grips with the Boche by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
Now, the way to the capital was silent and empty, save for gray military motors and lumbering army camions.
From Everyman's Land by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)
