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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