How to Use dump truck in a Sentence
dump truck
noun-
Both the minivan and the dump truck overturned in the road.
— Cameron Knight, Cincinnati.com, 16 July 2019 -
The driver of the dump truck was not injured in the crash.
— Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Jan. 2022 -
In it, a man meets a pig who wants to ride in his dump truck.
— Georgia Garvey, chicagotribune.com, 19 Apr. 2021 -
Crews used a crane to move the dump truck bed away from the overpass.
— Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 14 Sep. 2022 -
Tough Day: The helper just backed the dump truck over your cooler.
— Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 13 Mar. 2019 -
The driver of the dump truck wasn’t hurt in the collision.
— Anchorage Daily News, 12 Jan. 2020 -
Two of the people who were killed were aboard the train while the third was in a dump truck that the train struck, said Cpl.
— Amy Simonson and Pete Muntean, CNN, 28 June 2022 -
Agents have found migrants in the backs of dump trucks and buried in sawdust.
— Nicholas Kulish, The Seattle Times, 9 July 2018 -
The crash involved a car and a dump truck, the sheriff's office said.
— Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2022 -
Ramp from 93 north to Pike west in Boston is shut down due to a dump truck rollover.
— Bailey Allen, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2022 -
Officers arrived on the scene and found a dump truck had struck a tree on the south side of the road.
— Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 8 Nov. 2022 -
The car ended up wedged in between the dump truck and semi.
— Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 18 Oct. 2019 -
Debris from cities and villages is brought here in dump trucks at all hours of the day.
— Nicole Tung, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2024 -
This year’s event will help the nonprofit buy a dump truck.
— Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 June 2019 -
City dump trucks lined the street in front of the main entrance to the building, ready to block streets if needed.
— Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023 -
The bridge was struck and brought down by a dump truck that was being used for a nearby project.
— Shepard Price, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Mar. 2023 -
Footage captured by the news outlet showed the scooter on its side near the right rear tire of the dump truck.
— Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com, 10 Aug. 2021 -
The dump truck then sideswiped the semi-trailer truck and went into a ditch.
— Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 5 Dec. 2019 -
One orange dump truck moved through the city to collect the remains.
— Todd Pitman, Fox News, 15 Sep. 2018 -
What a shame for your sister to go through life a verbal dump truck.
— cleveland, 9 Feb. 2020 -
Nearing the bridge across Bear Creek, Barnes came to a large state dump truck parked sideways across part of the road.
— Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 15 July 2022 -
But he was built like a freaking dump truck, and was about as graceful.
— Alexander Darwin, Rolling Stone, 11 Dec. 2021 -
He was starved, doused in motor oil, thrown into a dumpster, and trapped in the back of a dump truck.
— Jessica Schmidt, Cincinnati.com, 3 July 2019 -
The officers wheel the chair over to the truck and toss all their belongings into the dump truck.
— Globe Correspondent, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2019 -
The dump truck pivots to its side, asphalt begins to pour out.
— Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021 -
Below, a very large chunk of the EAA is being torn up by backhoes and dump trucks.
— Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 25 July 2024 -
There's an electric dump truck that's all over the internet right now: It's called the eDumper.
— Wired, 5 Sep. 2019 -
The 26-year-old driver of the dump truck and the driver of the Jetta were taken to hospitals.
— Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2021 -
Some of the biggest excavators and dump trucks look like tiny ants within the massive construction zone of The Line in Neom.
— New Atlas, 11 Aug. 2024 -
One of the vehicles was a loaded commercial dump truck.
— Dylan Wickman, The Arizona Republic, 12 Feb. 2024
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