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- noun Plural form of
eighteen-wheeler .
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Examples
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Marlin was driving eighteen-wheelers and gone a good part of the time.
Escape MaryAnne Kolton 2011
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He replied, “Sir, I see a couple eighteen-wheelers.”
Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile J.L. Bourne 2010
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It had blocked the Northern Alliance supply routes to the militiamen fighting on the southern frontier: the rickety old Soviet eighteen-wheelers that the guerrillas were using to transport ammunition and artillery to the front lines could not make it through the ice and snow.
Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010
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A retailer out of Pennsylvania named John LaMonte was designated to accept shipment, which proved to be a convoy of about sixty eighteen-wheelers.
Me, The Mob, And The Music Tommy James 2010
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For the two Canadians, for Hyun-Soo, it was a little like being in a Ferrari on the interstate with a big semitruck directly in front going 65 miles per hour, and two eighteen-wheelers on either side, each of them doing 65, too.
Zero Regrets Apolo Ohno 2010
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An enormous parking lot accommodates eighteen-wheelers, which tend to park outside for about twenty minutes at a time with the engines running.
The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010
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An endless stream of eighteen-wheelers screams by, abusing their klaxon horns, toying deliberately with Doppler effect to annoy the few patrons of this night club.
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An enormous parking lot accommodates eighteen-wheelers, which tend to park outside for about twenty minutes at a time with the engines running.
The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010
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An enormous parking lot accommodates eighteen-wheelers, which tend to park outside for about twenty minutes at a time with the engines running.
The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010
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Every now and then a convoy of oxen and carts carrying produce would pass by, the Bronze Age version of eighteen-wheelers.
THE PROMISED WAR Thomas Greanias 2010
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