How to Use truck stop in a Sentence
truck stop
noun-
In the early days, the restaurant was open 24-7, the same as the truck stop.
— Byron Tate, Arkansas Online, 9 May 2021 -
When the road melts, The Plate truck stop shutters for the summer.
— Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018 -
What are the truck stops like and how are the showers and bathrooms?
— Noah Davis, Popular Mechanics, 29 July 2015 -
The victim's truck stopped on the railroad tracks, and then was hit by the train.
— Ivana Hrynkiw, AL.com, 5 Sep. 2017 -
Craig was supposed to meet the seller, a stranger, at the truck stop.
— Craig Silverman, ProPublica, 22 Sep. 2021 -
Ashland is one of the places the truck stops every single day of the year.
— John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 16 Sep. 2017 -
Man-about-Utah Tony Quiroga shacked up at a Love's truck stop in the desert state for this episode.
— Jonathon Ramsey, Car and Driver, 3 June 2022 -
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 -
In Valley View, near the truck stop, the storms ripped the roofs off homes and blew out windows.
— CBS News, 27 May 2024 -
Thursday night's vote wasn't to approve the truck stop.
— Joshua Bowling, azcentral, 5 June 2020 -
Grayson was found dead at a New Orleans truck stop on April 30.
— Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 29 May 2023 -
Isn’t that what life is, one part paradise, one part truck stop?
— Lauren Markham, Longreads, 7 June 2018 -
The trucker blocked the snipers at a truck stop until police came.
— Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 17 Mar. 2022 -
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 -
This week, as the truck stopped outside his house, Dima ran up and Vesi got out to greet him.
— oregonlive.com, 31 July 2019 -
The last one came in 2019 from a man who claimed to have seen Frank Giza at a truck stop in western Maryland.
— Sarah Nelson, IndyStar, 2 June 2021 -
There was also a truck stop that didn't amount to much, as Hardin recalls.
— Byron Tate, Arkansas Online, 9 May 2021 -
Every truck stop is like a shrine seeking to ward off the demons of fatigue.
— New York Times, 9 Feb. 2022 -
His car then wrecked at the Velaro truck stop on Kelly Creek Road.
— Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 8 Nov. 2019 -
Her body was left near a dumpster behind a bustling truck stop.
— Darcy Costello, The Courier-Journal, 31 Aug. 2017 -
The Lamberts quickly pulled off at a truck stop to call police.
— Sam Stecklow, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Apr. 2022 -
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 -
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 -
The driver of the truck stopped and reported the incident.
— Isabelle D'antonio, OrlandoSentinel.com, 1 Mar. 2018 -
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 -
Large truck stops will be allowed up to 10 machines each.
— Dan Petrella, chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2019 -
With its sprawling campus and more than 100 gas pumps, Buc-ee's may look like a truck stop.
— George Petras, The Courier-Journal, 14 May 2024 -
That’s more Alabama trucker hats than the Love’s truck stop in Jasper.
— Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 24 Sep. 2019 -
Dozens of people sheltered at a highway truck stop in the small town of Valley View as the storm rolled through the largely rural county north of Dallas near the Oklahoma state border.
— Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 26 May 2024 -
The justices ruled 6-3 in favor of a truck stop in North Dakota that wants to sue over a regulation on debit card swipe fees that the federal appeals court in Washington upheld 10 years ago.
— Beth Greenfield, Fortune, 1 July 2024
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