eighteen-wheeler

Example Sentences

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If the body was sacrificed on the last run, a new one is downloaded from the top floor of the team’s eighteen-wheeler workshop.

From New York Times • May 17, 2020

“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 took a sip of Gatorade as she whizzed past an eighteen-wheeler.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 2, 2018

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

I love the way he drives with one hand anchored to the bottom of the wheel as he uses his palm to spin it when he turns, like he’s driving an eighteen-wheeler or something.

From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy