dray

Example Sentences

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The situation is especially fraught for the nation’s 75,000 dray operators and other foot soldiers of the supply chain.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2022

Part of that effort is the Port of Seattle’s ongoing installation of shore power, having charging infrastructure for dray trucks and working to accommodate sustainable aviation fuels at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 3, 2021

Government authorities had refused to supply him with provisions or a bullock dray, so he was forced to stay with the very squatters whose conduct he was supposed to examine.

From The Guardian • Mar. 22, 2019

It’s as if, instead of the Kentucky Derby, viewers were urged to enjoy the spectacle of thoroughbreds harnessed as dray horses.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 27, 2017

Two men in leather aprons were unloading beer barrels down a ramp from the dray cart.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan