How to Use truck stop in a Sentence

truck stop

noun
  • Isn’t that what life is, one part paradise, one part truck stop?
    — Lauren Markham, Longreads, 7 June 2018
  • Her body was left near a dumpster behind a bustling truck stop.
    — Darcy Costello, The Courier-Journal, 31 Aug. 2017
  • What are the truck stops like and how are the showers and bathrooms?
    — Noah Davis, Popular Mechanics, 29 July 2015
  • Craig was supposed to meet the seller, a stranger, at the truck stop.
    — Craig Silverman, ProPublica, 22 Sep. 2021
  • The victim's truck stopped on the railroad tracks, and then was hit by the train.
    — Ivana Hrynkiw, AL.com, 5 Sep. 2017
  • The owners of the truck stop brought us some tea and this amazing plate of fresh figs.
    — Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Dec. 2017
  • The trucker blocked the snipers at a truck stop until police came.
    — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Ashland is one of the places the truck stops every single day of the year.
    — John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 16 Sep. 2017
  • Every truck stop is like a shrine seeking to ward off the demons of fatigue.
    — New York Times, 9 Feb. 2022
  • There was also a truck stop that didn't amount to much, as Hardin recalls.
    — Byron Tate, Arkansas Online, 9 May 2021
  • The Lamberts quickly pulled off at a truck stop to call police.
    — Sam Stecklow, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Pyles is circling back to his childhood in a Big Spring truck stop.
    — Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Police were called to the truck stop and both were taken into custody.
    — Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Two Swift vehicles were set on fire while parked behind the truck stop.
    — Scott Schwebke The Orange County Register (tns), al, 13 Oct. 2022
  • When the road melts, The Plate truck stop shutters for the summer.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018
  • They were taken into custody at a Posen truck stop.
    — Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Officers have roped off the area, including part of the truck stop.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 20 Nov. 2019
  • The other businesses were a truck stop and a liquor store, police said.
    — Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026
  • In the early days, the restaurant was open 24-7, the same as the truck stop.
    — Byron Tate, Arkansas Online, 9 May 2021
  • Drive-through smoke shops, car washes and truck stop amenities also bring in revenue.
    — Mead Gruver, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2026
  • But Pilot expects chargers to draw twice as much power as the rest of a truck stop.
    — Jennifer Hiller, WSJ, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Grayson was found dead at a New Orleans truck stop on April 30.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 29 May 2023
  • In Valley View, near the truck stop, the storms ripped the roofs off homes and blew out windows.
    — CBS News, 27 May 2024
  • This week, as the truck stopped outside his house, Dima ran up and Vesi got out to greet him.
    — oregonlive.com, 31 July 2019
  • Steele, as a longtime lover of roadside dive bars, truck stop diners and cross-country road trips, would know.
    — Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Brittany would pick up the kids at Foxboro each afternoon and drive to a truck stop or city park for the night.
    — James Ross Gardner, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Now trucks speed by, rumbling on the way to and from the landfill and the truck stop, and thick gray dust coats the yards and homes nearby.
    — Tyrese Coleman With Melody Schreiber, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Kessler was found at a truck stop on May 16 and arrested on the grand theft auto charges.
    — Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE.com, 7 Dec. 2021
  • The truck's front-left tire started to fall between the girders, but the truck stopped before falling through.
    — Jay R. Jordan, Houston Chronicle, 19 Apr. 2018
  • In the kitchen of the truck stop diner that gives the play its title, the cooks making the sandwiches have all served time.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2021

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