eighteen-wheeler
Example Sentences
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In March, a self-driving eighteen-wheeler spent more than five straight days hauling goods between Dallas and Atlanta.
From New York Times • Sep. 28, 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
“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
Braseth had the 3-ton sculpture lifted onto an eighteen-wheeler and trucked to Seattle, where Fabrication Specialties of Seattle's South Park neighborhood sandblasted it and replaced the plumbing.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 23, 2012
She didn’t expect much from the process, so she was startled when, in December 2005, an eighteen-wheeler pulled up in front of their apartment with a gleaming white trailer in tow.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
