eighteen-wheeler

Example Sentences

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Cars slid through intersections in San Antonio, where Interstate 10 was closed, prompting the authorities to redirect eighteen-wheeler trucks along surface streets.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2021

“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

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