How to Use lorry in a Sentence

lorry

noun
Definition of lorrynext
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Users include party-goers, slimmers who take the drug as an appetite suppressant and others such as students and lorry and taxi drivers who want to stay awake for long periods.
    — The Economist, 18 July 2017
  • Spain Police in Madrid have stepped up security, with measures including a ban on lorries and vans in the centre of the Spanish capital during the festivities.
    — Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle, 13 June 2018
  • There is a warranted sense that, like the lorries carrying cargo, the port’s prosperity is always heading elsewhere.
    — Samuel Earle, The New Republic, 22 Oct. 2019

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