lorry

Example Sentences

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When she is at the yard, loading and unloading the lorry, she is usually the only woman there.

From BBC • Mar. 8, 2026

The 50-year-old, from Driffield, East Yorkshire, says driving a lorry has been an ambition of hers from an early age.

From BBC • Mar. 8, 2026

"We may have to go into town or somewhere safer," said Issa Diayri, 31, a truck driver waiting in a roadside garage, his lorry idle for lack of deliveries from Iran.

From Barron's • Mar. 7, 2026

Filling his water tank at a petrol station outside the city, lorry driver Abdilrashiid Adam Jamac told AFP he now had an Israeli flag hanging in his home.

From Barron's • Feb. 20, 2026

We took a noisy lorry to the center of the city.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah