eighteen-wheeler
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Her father was a Teamster who drove an eighteen-wheeler for UPS.
From New York Times • Feb. 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
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
In another tank, peeking out from its cement cave, was a squid the size of an eighteen-wheeler, with a beak like a giant bolt cutter.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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