How to use lorry in a sentence

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• We could see the lorry in the mirror, so decided to change lanes.From the entry mirror
• Dazzled by the headlights of the lorry, the deer stopped in the middle of the street.From the entry dazzle
• The lorry is blocking off the road, so traffic has come to a standstill.From the entry block off
• The lorry ploughed into the line of stationary cars.From the entry plough into
• The lorry plowed into the line of stationary cars.From the entry plow into
• His reference to waves of lorries on the A55 that match ferry schedules may become dated.2021 December 29, Philip Haigh, “Rail’s Role in Unifying Great Britain and Northern Ireland”, in Rail, number 947, Peterborough…. From the entry land bridge
• CTUK work with lorry drivers to help them subsume the experience of cyclists.2017, David Dansky, Clare Morris, “Carsickness: Reconstruing Driving and Cycling”, in Peter Cummins, Harry Procter, David Winter, Nick…. From the entry Kellian
• Jerry's got a mass of stuff there—tanks, guns, lorries, every sort of heavy armament.2011 [1965], Olivia Manning, Friends And Heroes (The Balkan Trilogy), Random House, →ISBN. From the entry have kittens
• I arrived at Aberdeen headquarters, where the lorries with loading parties and guards were waiting.2009 [1941 December 20], Charles Barman, Ray Barman, Resist to the End: Hong Kong, 1941-1945, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC…. From the entry Mount Gough
• Meanwhile the Tommies had discovered several large tins of ham in the captured lorry.1949, Stephen Peter Llewellyn, Journey Towards Christmas, page 142. From the entry bull
• The movement of certain types of lorries when loaded, and certain other transport is forbidden.1940 January 29, Peter Lawless, “2 Days of Thaw, Rain, Ice & Melting Snow”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 26412, London: Telegraph Media…. From the entry hardstanding
• An electric long-distance lorry is like a concrete air balloon - its weight in batteries exceeds its carrying capacity.2020 May 6, Prof. Andrew McNaughton, “Time to challenge some sacred philosophies of recent years”, in Rail, page 35. From the entry long-distance
• A lorry driver who smuggled illegal immigrants into the UK in the back of his trailer has been jailed.2018 July 20, “Lorry driver jailed for smuggling illegal immigrants into UK”, in cps.gov.uk, London: Crown Prosecution Service, retrieved…. From the entry smuggle
• May I tumpang my furniture on your lorry?2010-07-15, Denyse Tessensohn, “Useful (and some Colloquial) words and phrases”, in Puterim.com, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2016. From the entry tompang
• After this Martin became very despondent and withdrew to the lorry to console himself with a bottle of "babash" (moonshine).1994, Mary L. Gill, Presence, Identity and Meaning in the Trinidad Carnival. From the entry babash
• Genial lorry drivers, munching wurst high in their cabs, looking down on their secretive toing and froing with interest.1987, Christina Hardyment, “Picking up Gold and Silver”, in Heidi’s Alp: One Family’s Search for Storybook Europe, Book Club edition, New…. From the entry secretive
• He commissioned the proprietor of an ancient lorry to deliver a load of turf mould to the rear of the hall.1984, John B. Keane, Man of the Triple Name, Brandon, →ISBN, page 6. From the entry tatarara
• When requested by the worker a suitable apron shall be supplied to timber stackers, lorry drivers, and machinists.1982, New Zealand. Arbitration Court, Awards, Agreements, Orders, and Decisions Made Under the Industrial Relations Act, the Apprentices…. From the entry slabby
• During the "blackout", many real cars and lorries had their front wings painted white, in order to avoid accidents.1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 88. From the entry blackout
• If you don't stop they pee in your lorry.1965, Wole Soyinka, Road, page 26. From the entry nature
• Lorries collect the milk from the various outlying farms, whence it is taken to the district distribution centre to undergo pasteurisation.1959 March, R. C. Riley, “Home with the Milk”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 155, 157. From the entry outlying
• "Thanks to the deck of an articulated lorry being similar to the rail vehicle, all we needed was some hardstanding and a bridging plate.2021 September 8, Anthony Lambert, “On track for express parcels delivery”, in RAIL, number 939, page 41. From the entry hardstanding
• Shlomo threw the polony and bread ceremoniously into the lorry and heaved himself up to see who it was who recognised him.1984, Jewish Affairs, volume 39, number 4, page 35. From the entry polony
• And at last, in a laxly Presbyterian family with one filling station, two lorries, a cinema and some land, they found a girl.1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part One, Chapter 5. From the entry laxly
• Frequently the growling of our lorry would frighten up coveys of waracabra—black jungle birds somewhat resembling guinea fowls, but with larger and longer legs.1953, Robert H. Pierson, Paddles Over the Kamarang: The Story of the Davis Indians, page 7. From the entry waracabra
• End-to-end journey times could be double that of lorries on the expanding motorway network, and it was more difficult than ever to path trains between fast passenger services.2020 April 8, Howard Johnston, “East-ended? When the ECML was at risk”, in Rail, page 67. From the entry end-to-end
• Well, maybe you’d like to have what was s’posed to be your immortal body ground up and put on the road for lorries and tourbusses to lumber over, eh?2001, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, “The Mummies of the Motorway”, in Scarborough Fair, Gollancz, published 2011, →ISBN. From the entry tourbus
• Each rail wagon holds two lorry trailers and features a new 'pivoting pocket' which moves through 45° to allow the tug to push the trailer onto the wagon from alongside.2025 August 20, Paul Clifton, “Ro Ro Rail takes the freight train to Spain”, in RAIL, number 1042, page 49. From the entry tug
• Being so inflexible, the railway was easy prey to road competition, and the arrival of unregulated lorry transport from farm fields to town centres quickly captured all locally generated business.2020 November 18, Howard Johnston, “The missing 'Lincs' and the sole survivor”, in Rail, page 58. From the entry capture
• The river had not spated as much as I had expected, and there was only one place in my sector where lorries might have found difficulty in crossing the nala.[1938], Rajput [pseudonym; Arthur John Eardley Dawson], chapter 12, in Khyber Calling!, London: Hurst & Blackett, →OCLC, section 3, page 181. From the entry spate
• All through the day the collecting vans and lorries bring consignments of every description to the goods station proper, which consists of lines of rails and long platforms under cover.1914, Ernest Protheroe, chapter 9, in The Railways of the World, London: Routledge, page 224. From the entry goods station

Meaning of lorry

1. noun A large and heavy motor vehicle designed to carry goods or soldiers; a truck.
2. noun A truck with an open carriage, sometimes used for transporting construction workers.
3. noun A barrow or truck for shifting baggage, as at railway stations.

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Questions about lorry in a sentence

How do you use lorry in a sentence?

Lorry is used as a noun and verb. For example: “We could see the lorry in the mirror, so decided to change lanes.”

What is a short sentence with lorry?

“May I tumpang my furniture on your lorry?”

What does lorry mean?

Lorry means a large and heavy motor vehicle designed to carry goods or soldiers; a truck.