How to Use big rig in a Sentence

big rig

noun

• Callers reported the 53-foot-long big rig went off the right side of the freeway and down the hill.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2024
• Smaller trucks, like box trucks, will be charged $24, while big rigs will rack up a $36 base fee.
  — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 27 Mar. 2024
• Cars regularly overheat, big rigs catch fire on the side of the road.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 17 May 2024
• Uribe said the collision left the driver of the big rig with minor injuries to his left hand.
  — Jason Green, The Mercury News, 2 May 2024
• The main big rig against the mortar fire sequence was shot in a high, very, very flat country area, to the west of New South Wales in Australia.
  — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 May 2024
• The van was on its side, and the front of the semi was mangled as the big rig and its load lay in a ditch by the highway, partially on its side.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 9 Mar. 2024
• The big rig, a Walmart truck, overturned shortly before noon in the middle of the eastbound deck.
  — Jordan Parker, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2023
• The mechanics travel from city to city with the trucks, which are transported on big rigs.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
• Drivers stuck behind them had to wait for specialty tow trucks to come in and haul the big rigs out of the way to allow traffic to flow, said Sgt.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 16 Mar. 2024
• In 2008, two tornado clouds in Riverside County flipped a big rig and derailed a freight train.
  — Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2023
• An 18-wheeler struck the stopped vehicles, and then a second big rig hit the first, Segura said.
  — Zaeem Shaikh, Dallas News, 12 Sep. 2023
• That impact caused the Dodge to spin out and travel into the path of the big rig, which broadsided the left side of the Dodge before crashing through a fence along the highway.
  — Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2024
• At one point, the Honda collided head-on with a big rig traveling southbound, the CHP said.
  — Jason Green, The Mercury News, 24 May 2024
• The pileup involved 17 cars and 18 big rigs, KABC reported.
  — Sarah Al-Arshani, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2024
• All southbound lanes on the 5 Freeway were shut down after two people were killed in a crash involving a big rig.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2023
• Other vehicles stuck behind them had to wait for specialty tow trucks to come in and haul the big rigs out of the way to allow traffic to flow.
  — CBS News, 16 Mar. 2024
• The Unimog is neither quick nor light on its feet, but in terms of off-road capability, this big rig makes the G-class seem like an S-class.
  — Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 5 May 2023
• The trucking industry has complained for years that there is a dire shortage of workers willing to drive big rigs.
  — Peter Eavis, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• On Monday, a small step was made to encourage the adoption of electrically powered big rigs in the area.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2023
• The regenerative braking really brought the EV big rig to a crawl at times, too.
  — Cameron Aubernon, Popular Science, 15 May 2024
• Kids can climb behind the wheel to touch, honk and explore big rigs like tractors, dump trucks, ambulances, fire trucks and police cruisers.
  — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 2 June 2024
• Four other vehicles besides the big rig were involved, Purl said.
  — Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 18 July 2024
• Aurora sees a bright future for testing out its self-driving big rigs.
  — Alexandra Skores, Dallas News, 29 June 2023
• Advertisement Cars regularly overheat, big rigs catch fire on the side of the road.
  — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2024
• The company’s latest product is a Class-8 electric big rig.
  — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2022
• The moped rider, who was wearing a helmet, was involved in a collision with a big rig truck, causing him to be ejected onto the roadway, the CHP said.
  — Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2024
• The Bankhead Tunnel has been the site of some dramatic images such as big rigs sheered in half, or moving trucks jammed into the tunnel’s concrete entrance.
  — John Sharp | [e-mail], al, 16 Aug. 2023
• Some expensive electric big rigs have already hit the market.
  — Nadia Lopez, USA TODAY, 2 May 2023
• The suspect stopped the big rig on a dirt shoulder, put it into reverse and rammed into one of the police vehicles, disabling it, Maqueira said.
  — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
• In the midst of a truck driver shortage last year, Walmart decided its own ranks of 1.6 million employees might want to learn how to drive a big rig for Walmart.
  — Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 28 July 2023

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024