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
He has a meaty, frank voice — it hits bluntly, but without much depth, like painting with a brush lashed to an eighteen-wheeler.
From New York Times • Nov. 6, 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
It’s not eight o’clock yet, but there’s a parking lot full of cars, an eighteen-wheeler full of boxes, and a line stretched out the door.
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
