How to Use truck in a Sentence

truck

1 of 2 noun
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  • The truck will be used for catering and events once the stall opens.
    — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2023
  • The town said the fire is believed to have started inside the cab area of the truck.
    — Jeff A. Chamer, Charlotte Observer, 18 Apr. 2024
  • When a cement truck blocked the lane, the swarm simply took to the sidewalk.
    — Tim Stevens, WIRED, 19 Aug. 2023
  • The truck zigzagged through side streets for two hours to avoid Israeli tanks on the main road south.
    — Ghada Abdulfattah, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2024
  • More freight is moved on trucks than on trains, and much more is stolen off trucks, too.
    — Malia Wollan, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Aid trucks that do manage to get through the Rafah crossing aren’t able to meet the need, Skau said.
    — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 11 Dec. 2023
  • After 25 minutes, the high-speed chase ended when the truck’s front tires hit the spike bars and went flat.
    — Tamia Fowlkes, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
  • Hitchhiked with a truck driver from South Africa to Botswana.
    — Ruthie Ackerman, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Rose, the truck's driver, didn't pull over, leading to a pursuit.
    — Gina Martinez, CBS News, 27 July 2023
  • Our truck was a Western Star, a quad-axle straight truck -- meaning ...
    — Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 9 Nov. 2023
  • During the panic, a few people appear to be struck by the aid trucks.
    — Aaron Boxerman, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The driver of the pickup truck was taken to UAB West where he was pronounced dead.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The rules also look to cut emissions from heavy-duty trucks as well.
    — Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The truck’s bed includes a power-folding midgate that expands the length from five to eight feet.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 10 Jan. 2024
  • He was then found dead in his truck in the hotel parking lot, the BBC reported.
    — Sarah Al-Arshani, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2024
  • The body of a flood victim is placed in the back of a pickup truck in Derna, eastern Libya, on Monday.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Officers also found ski masks, a pair of box cutters and the keys to the truck, police said.
    — Tanasia Kenney, Miami Herald, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The images also show what was left of the truck that was hit, as well as pieces of twisted metal from the crossing.
    — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 13 Dec. 2023
  • As much as $100 million in jewels and valuables was taken from the truck.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
  • According to the incident report, deputies found both the machete and the gun in his truck.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Police found the bodies of a man and woman behind two trucks in the parking lot, near the store's entrance.
    — CBS News, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The trucks equipped with nozzles and hoses will be used for fire suppression and dust abatement throughout the process.
    — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Fans could literally sit on a truck tailgate and watch the game unfold in front of them.
    — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Dec. 2023
  • The driver of the truck remained at the crash scene and alcohol is not suspected to be a factor.
    — Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Not wanting to get ambushed in the dark, Mattson decided to head for his truck.
    — Outdoor Life, 26 July 2023
  • For fans of the show, there was one telltale giveaway: Some of the clips show Squad 3 emblazoned on the truck, the number of the unit depicted in the series.
    — USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Three trucks emblazoned with Vermont State Hazmat Team were parked in the shoulder, one with lights flashing, and the smell of gas was in the air.
    — Mike Damiano, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2023
  • The driver didn’t realize there was a man underneath his truck and ran him over, O’Brien said.
    — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The streets around the plant became choked with truck traffic, the marsh threaded with pipelines, and the quiet was replaced with the din of construction.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Due to the small footprint, no heavy equipment (think cranes or large trucks) could drive on to the property, meaning all of the materials had to be walked up to the project site by hand.
    — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 18 Apr. 2024
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truck

2 of 2 verb
  • From there, drivers would truck the bullets to Ukraine.
    — Justin Scheck, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2022
  • So the producers trucked in the frozen stuff from a local fish plant.
    — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Dec. 2023
  • The pipeline runs to a roadside tank, and the water is trucked to a bottling plant.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • One is to truck all the pond’s contents to a secure landfill.
    — al, 29 June 2020
  • The river sand was to be trucked to areas south of the pier, such as the rocky Buccaneer Beach.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Feb. 2023
  • The blooms were trucked in trucks from the Netherlands and set up in planters to decorate the Vatican square.
    — Frances D'emilio, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Apr. 2023
  • By the end, the entire cooler is stacked with our gray bins full of vegetables, ready to truck to market.
    — Natalie McGill, Washington Post, 12 July 2022
  • Salmon the size of baby carrots would be whooshed into it, trapped in tanks and trucked around dams on their migration to the sea.
    — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The gourmet trucks thriving downtown laid off the argument.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Currently, many meals are prepackaged and trucked to schools from a central kitchen.
    — Rory Linnane, Journal Sentinel, 1 May 2023
  • State officials have plans to truck in loads of sand to rebuild the beaches, both public and private.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Texas firefighters had to truck in water to put out a massive fire in North Bexar County that raged for 14 hours.
    — Marlene Lenthang, ABC News, 19 Feb. 2021
  • The bright white sand on South Beach is Floridian but trucked in from mines to combat coastal erosion.
    — Alice Newell-Hanson Stefan Ruiz, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Greenberg is asking the town for permission to truck away up to more than 2,000 cubic yards of earth and rock from the property.
    — Don Stacom, courant.com, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Turn on the ignition, check to see that all of the instrument panel lights illuminate, and give the car or truck a good test drive.
    — Jim Gorzelany, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2021
  • They were build in Duluth and trucked to Saint Paul in sections, where course builders welded them together in place to ensure a snug fit.
    — Michelle Bruton, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
  • In some recent years, there was not enough snow to start the race, so race officials had snow trucked in or brought by cargo trains from the north to patch up the bare ground at the starting line.
    — Victoria Petersen, WIRED, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Nearly a third of the Navajo households do not have running water and must rely on water that is trucked in.
    — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2023
  • There are no hydrants near the fire, so firefighters have to truck in water, officials said.
    — Alec Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 May 2022
  • Introduced in 2016, the ladies of Potomac, Maryland, are trucking along with their eighth season.
    — James Grebey, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Minimize the amount of food packaging that campgrounds must truck to landfills.
    — Erin E. Williams, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2022
  • His mother was a lunch lady and his father trucked fuel to construction sites.
    — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Typically they are trucked in to provide a stable source of power.
    — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2024
  • But some in the trucking industry are concerned the rule will ultimately increase prices for goods that are trucked.
    — Sophie Austin, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2023
  • The meat did not come from birds packed into an 18-wheeler and trucked to a nondescript plant where they were slaughtered, cleaned and dissembled into the usual cuts.
    — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Space shuttle’s rockets will be trucked through SoCal roads Tuesday and Wednesday.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
  • And while King’s books usually truck with the supernatural, this time the horror is all real.
    — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Much of Gaza’s fuel is trucked in from a refinery in Haifa, and Hamas has rapidly diminished Gaza’s supplies for its own use.
    — Anna Schecter, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Like in every landfill, moisture in the trash that’s trucked in mixes with rainfall and collects into a polluted soup known as leachate.
    — Chloe Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The manner in which Princeton trucked Missouri in the second round should certainly have Creighton’s attention.
    — Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2023

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