How to Use fire truck in a Sentence

fire truck

noun
  • Free hot chocolate and fire truck tours.
    — Debra Skodack, Kansas City Star, 19 Nov. 2025
  • The plane struck the fire truck at 104 mph.
    — Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 29 Apr. 2026
  • He, the rest of his crew, and a fire truck watched from across the street.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Nov. 2020
  • If all the parking spots are full where will the fire trucks park?
    — Karen Caffarini, Post-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2017
  • There are no fire trucks, there’s no way to put anything out.
    — Sean Illing, Vox, 23 June 2024
  • Sixty-mile-per-hour gusts peeled back the door on a fire truck.
    — Jennifer Oldham, ProPublica, 27 Dec. 2022
  • In the good old days parades were bands, floats, fire trucks, etc.
    — Ticked Off, Orlando Sentinel, 29 Nov. 2024
  • As the plane comes to a halt, fire trucks douse the plane with water.
    — Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 8 May 2024
  • Video showed flames seen in the distance as fire trucks rushed to the scene.
    — CBS News, 4 May 2026
  • Some of the fire trucks and the paramedics, they were getting trapped there.
    — Danielle Bacher, People.com, 11 Jan. 2025
  • At least 20 fire trucks were called in over the course of a few hours.
    — Marisa Sullivan, Peoplemag, 16 May 2023
  • The wail of fire trucks can be heard as passersby stopped to record the scene.
    — Francie Ebert, NBC news, 16 May 2026
  • Manny heard sirens in the distance but did not see any fire trucks.
    — Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Ambulances and fire trucks were on the scene.
    — Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2026
  • There are four, sometimes five, people in the fire truck at a time.
    — Isabella Zarate, AZCentral.com, 30 July 2023
  • Sure enough, a fire truck and the fire chief pulled up a few minutes later.
    — John R. Delaney, PC Magazine, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Enjoy food trucks, see a fire truck up close, and take part in giveaways.
    — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2022
  • The team that pulls the fire truck a distance of 40 feet the fastest will win.
    — Elizabeth Marie Himchak, Pomerado News, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Flight 8646 slams into the fire truck.
    — Michael R. Sisak, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Buoys bobbed on top of the floodwaters, which came up to the wheel wells of a fire truck.
    — CBS News, 7 Jan. 2018
  • And the cop got the medical people here and the fire trucks.
    — Tom Ignudo, CBS News, 19 May 2026
  • The wall of flames shot out the building and burned seats inside a fire truck across the street.
    — Stefanie Dazio and Frank Baker, Houston Chronicle, 17 May 2020
  • The Warthogs are bringing fire trucks and police cars to the event.
    — Emily Bamforth, cleveland.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • There will be no fire truck or fire station at the harbor under the plan.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2022
  • The fire chief said that the lieutenant had never gotten off the fire truck.
    — Jessica Jaglois, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Feb. 2023
  • No one was in the fire truck at the time of the collision, state police said.
    — Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Several of the fire trucks were released from the scene.
    — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Four seconds before the crash, the controller again told the fire truck to stop.
    — Clara McMichael, ABC News, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Their crew had parked their fire truck there and, for an entire night, had hosed down the four houses.
    — Ingfei Chen, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2025
  • About a dozen people stood chatting in groups of two and three, waiting for the fire truck.
    — Elizabeth Bobrick, New York Times, 4 May 2024

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