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
Now that it’s closer to us, I realize that this thing is big—about as big as an eighteen-wheeler.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
