How to Use flatbed in a Sentence

flatbed

1 of 2 adjective

• The big gun is jury-rigged on the back of a flatbed truck.
  — James Levinson, Fox News, 13 Apr. 2023
• This was not something that could’ve been thrown on the back of a flatbed.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 19 May 2021
• Then the rest of the components are moved on flatbed trucks.
  — Patrick Kennedy, Star Tribune, 6 July 2021
• Here’s then where this all lands in terms of the flatbed truck scenario.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2021
• Youngkin climbed onto a flatbed truck to address the crowd.
  — David Montgomery, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2022
• The event was stationary on 14th and U street, where the live go-go bands cranked on a flatbed truck.
  — Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2022
• Just south of Susanville, in the small town of Janesville, flatbed trucks hauling dozers dot the sides of the road.
  — Christal Hayes, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2021
• With them were dozens of limp, bloodied bodies, piled up on the flatbed trucks.
  — Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2021
• The techs then secured the missile to the back of a flatbed truck and took it to their base for destruction.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 19 Aug. 2020
• That vehicle was parked in front of him, and ahead of them both was a flatbed tow truck.
  — Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2021
• News cameras captured the car as it was taken from the scene on a flatbed truck.
  — Henri Hollis, ajc, 21 May 2021
• Then the equipment was put on a flatbed truck and driven in the dead of night to Fermilab.
  — Don Lincoln, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
• Once, not long ago, a man drove up from Colorado with a chopper strapped to a flatbed truck.
  — Michael Allen, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
• The small cruise missiles are typically launched from the back of a flatbed truck and have a range of up to 1,500 miles.
  — Armani Syed, Time, 20 Oct. 2022
• The truck was described as having a large, silver flatbed.
  — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 2 Sep. 2020
• The outtakes are followed by pictures of those same cars being towed away on the back of a flatbed truck.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2022
• There is a flatbed trailer in the parking lot behind the red-brick church building.
  — Keith Bierygolick, The Enquirer, 13 Aug. 2021
• Some have decked out the back of their flatbed trucks with stockings bearing the numbers of star players.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2023
• Two flatbed trucks were required to tow the unsafe vehicle from the lot.
  — cleveland, 13 Apr. 2022
• Traveling on a flatbed truck, the statue has made its way across the country.
  — NBC News, 13 July 2021
• One caller said the shooter fired at flatbed trailers in the parking lot.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2022
• His mother served in the Army in the Gulf War, delivering tanks in the war zone on flatbed trailers.
  — Bruce Selcraig, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Apr. 2021
• Sometimes, that involves using a long flatbed truck, a barge or even a 300-ton crane.
  — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2021
• Carlo Gozzi, of Flossmoor, brought his daughter Madelyn, 6, to toss some pumpkins in the back of the flatbed.
  — Bill Jones, chicagotribune.com, 8 Nov. 2020
• On his 1963 visit to Cleveland, Dr. King spoke from the back of a flatbed truck at a park not far from our neighborhood.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2022
• All the cowboys on the flatbed trailer throwing out candy.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 20 Aug. 2021
• The equipment was packed into a wooden box on Jan. 10, then fastened to a pallet atop the flatbed haulage truck.
  — Rhiannon Hoyle, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2023
• Instead, by turning right across his blind spot, the cab of the flatbed struck Langenkamp and knocked her off her bike, Regan said.
  — Dan Morse, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2022
• To get these precious petals to Chile, they’re carefully loaded atop a flatbed truck.
  — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2023
• The young whale was lifted from the water, wrapped in moist towels and loaded onto the back of a flatbed truck, and Newby was told to ride with her down to Seattle.
  — Caitlin Gibson, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023

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flatbed

2 of 2 noun

• They were found in a dead-end street and placed in the flatbed of a pick-up truck.
  — Alexia Fernandez, PEOPLE.com, 24 Oct. 2017
• Cranes and flatbed trucks are being used in the process.
  — CBS News, 19 Dec. 2017
• The first cars were brought on a flatbed to the airport this week, and the rest will arrive in the weeks ahead.
  — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2022
• Down the block, some men were watching a game of chess play out on the flatbed of one of their trucks.
  — Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 9 Aug. 2021
• Other pickup trucks are boxy, with a square cabin in the front and a flatbed in the back.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 25 Nov. 2019
• In the flatbed, Naw Chi Paw clutches her baby next to her teenage son.
  — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2023
• The crane's motors roared and Washington rose off the flatbed.
  — James B. Nelson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2018
• Four sculptures loomed on the flatbed, wearing tie-down straps.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 5 June 2017
• Rittenhouse had placed his rifle on the flatbed of a truck.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 28 June 2021
• Stewards had to load it onto a flatbed and haul it back to the garage, cutting short his drive.
  — Joseph Wilson, The Seattle Times, 19 Feb. 2019
• Bring them peace’ At 6 p.m., the Pomeroys, the Holcombes, the Greens and their friends and families climbed on flatbed trailers lined with hay.
  — Silvia Foster-Frau, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Dec. 2017
• The tunnel was sealed in 1965 with eight loaded flatbed cars inside.
  — Nicholas K. Geranios, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2017
• And with that, the tow trucks started hoisting the wreckage onto a flatbed for the trip to the county’s impound lot.
  — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2018
• The wood was delivered in a flatbed with a six-foot by ten-foot bed and four-foot sideboards; tossed in loose as high as the boards.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Nov. 2020
• Woods then allegedly smashed the lid and flipped the hive off the flatbed, agitating the bees even more, the release said.
  — Rob Frehse, CNN, 19 Oct. 2022
• Her twin brother Apollo was the god of the sun who had the job of steering the sun with his flatbed with his horses across the daytime sky.
  — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 13 Oct. 2019
• Each of the hometown brands will pull the cover off of a new flatbed, while at least three of the luxury brands roll out new SUVs.
  — Kyle Stock, Bloomberg.com, 11 Jan. 2018
• At that point, the load of wood shifted and fell off the flatbed, becoming wedged between the two trucks, damaging both.
  — Thomas Jewell, cleveland.com, 23 Aug. 2019
• Bands were playing backyard parties and on trucks, flatbeds.
  — Ben Trivett, EW.com, 8 Apr. 2023
• Once you are laid on the flatbed, it is passed through the gantry as the CT scanner rotates around the body to take continuous X-ray images.
  — Doru Paul, Verywell Health, 15 Nov. 2023
• Loading those folks on the flatbed railcars doesn't look comfortable at all.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 1 Sep. 2017
• Two workers scaled the tree pile like a cliff and began heaving trees to smaller flatbed trucks parked beside them.
  — Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
• Agents saw a silhouette inside the van on the flatbed, then found the four Mexican men, Agent Juan Torres said.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2021
• Kraft was informed that the car had been delivered on a flatbed from Florida.
  — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 8 June 2021
• Envision a self-driving car that is supposed to get itself onto the flatbed of a tow truck.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2021
• Then, the special trailer they were quarantined in was put on a flatbed, and taken to a waiting plane to be flown to Houston.
  — Laura Demarco, cleveland.com, 14 July 2019
• On Friday, a few rides that had arrived at the fairgrounds were on flatbeds waiting to be assembled.
  — Jerry Fallstrom, OrlandoSentinel.com, 1 Apr. 2018
• The train cars were loaded Tuesday onto flatbed trucks and drive away on Interstate 5.
  — Bloomberg.com, 18 Dec. 2017
• Fire snaked along the train on the bridge, burning through the wooden cars, including a flatbed of lumber, heading toward two tanker cars.
  — Karina Bland, The Arizona Republic, 29 July 2020
• The golf cart-like vehicle, loaded with bags of Diamond Dry on its flatbed, slammed into the bleachers on the Conroe side of the field.
  — Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 18 June 2018

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