eighteen-wheeler
Example Sentences
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In the world of electric vehicles, an eighteen-wheeler is like a swimming pool — and the connections available at today’s highway stops are akin to garden hoses.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2022
“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’s as long as an eighteen-wheeler, with a heart as big as a car—and a tongue that weighs as much as an elephant.”
From The New Yorker ● May 24, 2019
Now that it’s closer to us, I realize that this thing is big—about as big as an eighteen-wheeler.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
