How to Use lorry in a Sentence

lorry

noun

• Die Schwarze-Gelbe had a lorry load of chances to score in the game, but failed to convert any of them into a goal.
  — SI.com, 15 Jan. 2018
• Every year, 2 million lorries pass through this small town on their way to and from the port.
  — Georgina Voss, The Atlantic, 20 June 2018
• Gravel it up with the lads and a lorry without a permit?
  — Vulture, 14 Mar. 2022
• Now there are special buses to bring in staff and a lorry park for drivers.
  — Sarah O'Connor, Ars Technica, 19 Mar. 2022
• As lorries burned and bullets cracked across the city, bystanders picked up their children and fled.
  — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
• The roads are no better: 1m lorries a year travel through the pass and long tailbacks are common.
  — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
• The Kenya Red Cross said the lorry rammed more than six vehicles and ran over pedestrians.
  — Reuters, CNN, 1 July 2023
• Moses Mungai has driven a maize lorry for four hours to get here, from a border town in the foothills of Kilimanjaro.
  — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
• Many of them are itinerant, moving their colonies around the country on lorries in search of pollen and nectar.
  — The Economist, 8 Apr. 2020
• There have been queues at petrol pumps all over the country for the same reason: there are not enough lorry drivers to keep petrol stations full of fuel.
  — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 11 Oct. 2021
• As part of the plan, the government is building lorry parks to hold vehicles that don’t have the right documents.
  — Joe Mayes, Bloomberg.com, 15 Sep. 2020
• Even though the country sits on a sea of the stuff, the fuel needed to be transported by lorry hundreds of kilometres across the desert from Jeddah.
  — The Economist, 28 Nov. 2020
• Half a world away, in Philadelphia, her husband’s work as a lorry driver has dried up.
  — The Economist, 16 Apr. 2020
• The idea appears to have captured the imagination of both transport SMEs and lorry owners.
  — David Prosser, Forbes, 22 June 2022
• In a few months' time, this empty ocean highway will be filled with cars, buses, trucks and lorries, zipping between China, Hong Kong and Macau.
  — Sarah Lazarus, CNN, 4 May 2018
• The chemicals used to process quinine are costly and come by lorry from Tanzania.
  — The Economist, 8 June 2019
• To mitigate the risk, the government has built lorry parks and drivers entering Kent will require a permit or risk a fine.
  — Ian Wishart, Bloomberg.com, 24 Dec. 2020
• Court documents seen by CNN said he had been ferried with at least 24 other workers on the back of a lorry from their dormitory to a work site and was the fourth to alight from the vehicle.
  — Heather Chen, CNN, 27 Aug. 2023
• The port, through which 90% of Britain’s lorry traffic with the EU passes, was steeling itself to deal with problems on December 31st, but trouble came early.
  — The Economist, 21 Dec. 2020
• Their corpses were loaded into a lorry and cremated before the remains were dropped into a mineshaft and soaked in acid.
  — Terry Hartle, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Sep. 2017
• To that end, Vahak is a free-to-use online marketplace that connects transport SMEs with lorry drivers and owners.
  — David Prosser, Forbes, 22 June 2022
• The theft occurred when three vehicles were broken into in a lorry park in Mexborough in Yorkshire while a unit was shooting nearby.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 2 Mar. 2022
• The lorries are everywhere, barreling across the junction.
  — Georgina Voss, The Atlantic, 20 June 2018
• Barges emit fewer greenhouses gases, use less fuel and cause far fewer deaths and injuries than lorries or trains.
  — The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017
• For instance, it was reported that Tesco suppliers are being forced to bin nearly 50 tonnes of food each week due to a lorry driver crisis.
  — Amy Nguyen, Forbes, 25 June 2021
• Small firms sending limited consignments have been unable to share space on the same lorry, while many shipments have faced lengthy delays, causing products to spoil.
  — Joe Mayes, Bloomberg.com, 22 Mar. 2021
• Use containers of standard sizes that can be loaded onto trains, lorries or ships as needed; use scale to cut costs; co-ordinate the whole thing with a physical paper trail.
  — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
• Key ports are paralyzed as customs agents, dockworkers, lorry drivers and rail workers halt work.
  — Helen Regan, CNN, 30 Apr. 2021
• Unlike those classics, though, the music video features turbaned dancers in flashy kurtas belting out Punjabi lyrics while gyrating to bhangra beats, before a stage-set of lorries.
  — The Economist, 3 May 2018
• On a Monday afternoon in March, a handful of pickup trucks and lorries loaded with migrants mostly from southern Niger waited quietly at the barrier to embark on the long journey up through the Ténéré desert.
  — Jérôme Tubiana, Foreign Affairs, 31 Aug. 2017

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024