How to Use truck in a Sentence

truck

1 of 2 noun
  • But this just hit me like a truck.
    — Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 14 Apr. 2026
  • There was one truck that stole the show.
    — Shannon Tyler, Idaho Statesman, 7 June 2026
  • First one that came in was a diesel truck.
    — Alysia Burgio, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Athena moves from the side of the truck and stands up.
    — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Apr. 2026
  • How many people were in that truck?
    — Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026
  • The kabobs from the truck are also tasty.
    — Usa Today Network, USA Today, 19 June 2026
  • Taxi and truck drivers are next.
    — Ariel David, Baltimore Sun, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Have a story to tell about a car or truck?
    — Laura Lane, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The driver of the truck drove off.
    — Dylan Olsen, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2026
  • How do trucks perform in the snow?
    — Keenan Thompson, USA Today, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Our entire truck fleet were put on tracks.
    — Carole Horst, Variety, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Parris then fled the scene in a truck.
    — Robert A. Cronkleton march 3, Kansas City Star, 3 Mar. 2026
  • One child kept trying to snatch the truck away.
    — Jenisha Watts, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Trust the locals, do the truck.
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Apr. 2026
  • During that time, the truck caught on fire.
    — Dejanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The mid-block dock for trucks to load and unload?
    — Robert Yaro, New York Daily News, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Even if a fire didn’t spark, trucks could topple.
    — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2026
  • These half-dozen do not require you to have a truck.
    — Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2026
  • My son is a truck driver, so he’s gone all week.
    — Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 8 June 2026
  • There weren’t any lights, trucks or equipment.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The two ice chests are in the back of his pickup truck.
    — Corky Carroll, Oc Register, 9 May 2026
  • And, of course, the trucks themselves.
    — Michael Teo Van Runkle, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • The truck will be used for catering and events once the stall opens.
    — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2023
  • That’s $150 a week in costs just for his truck!
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Emt wasn’t wearing a seat belt and was thrown clear of the truck.
    — Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The leak appeared to be at the very back of the truck, off the rear.
    — Kris Habermehl, CBS News, 4 May 2026
  • When the truck left, two tents were gone — neither of which was tagged.
    — Chicago Tribune, 24 May 2026
  • Its truck prices start at $71,000.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Which Ford trucks are recalled?
    — Greta Cross, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025

truck

2 of 2 verb
  • Dirt has been trucked to a nearby golf course.
    — Arden Farhi, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Many of these puppies are trucked in from out of state.
    — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Right now, most of that dirt is trucked away to landfills.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 24 June 2026
  • The crew brought a Bobcat to truck out the garbage.
    — Tara Lynch, CBS News, 3 June 2026
  • One is to truck all the pond’s contents to a secure landfill.
    — al, 29 June 2020
  • 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
  • Currently, many meals are prepackaged and trucked to schools from a central kitchen.
    — Rory Linnane, Journal Sentinel, 1 May 2023
  • Wear it with wide-leg jeans and sneakers for a picnic with friends, or truck it into a skirt for a dressier look.
    — Isabel Garcia, PEOPLE, 31 Mar. 2026
  • All of the salads are prepared in Chicago and then trucked across the country.
    — Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 1 Jan. 2026
  • One stock that has trucked along higher despite the big moves is Caterpillar .
    — Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Sheep graze in the sunshine; potatoes and barley are grown here and trucked north to Denver.
    — Jon Billman, Outside Online, 13 Mar. 2017
  • 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
  • This may create more carbon emissions compared with trucking them.
    — Andrew Moseman, IEEE Spectrum, 10 Sep. 2025
  • His mother was a lunch lady and his father trucked fuel to construction sites.
    — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 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
  • There are no hydrants near the fire, so firefighters have to truck in water, officials said.
    — Alec Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 May 2022
  • But agents acting on tips saw the aluminum being trucked out of an Irvine warehouse to a shipping port.
    — Sean Emery, Oc Register, 13 May 2026
  • Typically they are trucked in to provide a stable source of power.
    — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • Minimize the amount of food packaging that campgrounds must truck to landfills.
    — Erin E. Williams, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2022
  • Water was trucked into neighborhoods with residents forced to line up for hours in the baking heat.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025
  • For each job, the sections of pipe must be trucked or towed to the job site, assembled, then disassembled and removed.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Once the asbestos is removed from the panels, they will be crushed and trucked from the property, Benjamin said.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 24 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • 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 whiskey is custom-distilled at Ross & Squibb in Indiana, then trucked west.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026
  • That site must connect to highways, to truck in materials, but also sit beside deep water.
    — New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Some communities no longer have running water, so officials have to truck in fresh supplies.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Aug. 2022

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