eighteen-wheeler

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Schools and colleges in several states canceled classes, and drivers in Texas found themselves stuck in frigid temperatures overnight, after an eighteen-wheeler jackknifed on Interstate 10 in Kerrville, about 60 miles northwest of San Antonio.

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 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

In another tank, peeking out from its cement cave, was a squid the size of an eighteen-wheeler, with a beak like a giant bolt cutter.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan