TRUCK in a Sentence

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For TRUCK, below is one of 81 sentences:
Those on the flying truck yelled a warning and the crowd scattered pell-mell, disclosing one of the steers lying in its blood.

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 Meanings and Examples of TRUCK
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
truck
 n.  a wheeled vehicle, in particular to transport goods, materials
Classic Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1  Ah nebber had no truck wid cows.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
2  He filled her up with such truck and she come home and begun workin on Mr. O'Hara.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
3  So we says, well, we'll get a truck and ship 'em right down to Minneapolis.'
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
4  He had six cows, two hundred chickens, a cream separator, a Ford truck.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
5  When they had speared out all they could reach, they emptied the vat on the floor, and then with shovels scraped up the balance and dumped it into the truck.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
6  Jonas pushed a truck loaded with hams from the smoke rooms on to an elevator, and thence to the packing rooms.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
7  Then a man came up, wheeling a truck; he knew Jurgis for Ona's husband, and was curious about the mystery.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
8  But the man had seen that the boss was watching him; he started on again, pushing his truck.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
9  Once he got a chance to load a truck for half a day, and again he carried an old woman's valise and was given a quarter.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
10  By and by the train stopped again, and Jurgis sprang down and ran under the car, and hid himself upon the truck.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
11  There were eight or ten policemen on the truck, however, and there was no disturbance until they came to a place where the street was blocked with a dense throng.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26
12  Those on the flying truck yelled a warning and the crowd scattered pell-mell, disclosing one of the steers lying in its blood.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26
13  This called for punishment, of course; and the police proceeded to administer it by leaping from the truck and cracking at every head they saw.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26
14  The gang having already got the carcass on to the truck, the party set out at a trot, followed by screams and curses, and a shower of bricks and stones from unseen enemies.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26
15  There's a man a piece down here, that's going over with some truck this evening, if he durs' to; he'll be in here to supper tonight, so you'd better set down and wait.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence: (46 in 4 pages)
16  A passenger train smashed into a truck on a level crossing.
17  In a bold promotional stunt for the movie, he smashed his car into a passing truck.
18  They corralled the cattle before loading them onto the truck.
19  The car veered onto the wrong side of the road and collided with an oncoming truck.
20  The crowd parted to let the truck pass.
21  We buy all our produce from the local truck farm.
22  Truck after truck was set ablaze as the fire spread.
23  The sound of the truck receded into the distance.
24  The maximum load for this truck is ten ton.
25  The automaker said it plans to freeze car and truck prices by the end of the decade.
26  One neighbor, who usually uses the truck to haul away lawn debris, always returns the truck in meticulous condition.
27  With your luck you'll get stuck behind a propane truck, or even worse a septic truck, the entire way up the hill.
28  Spouting violent imprecation, Hank searched for the person who had vandalized his truck.
29  My dad retrieved a flashlight from the truck, and we found the deer within a 100 yards.
30  Hi, it is the time to unload the truck.