concrete mixer

noun

British
: a truck that has a large container which turns when it is filled with wet cement so that the cement will not become hard : cement mixer

Examples of concrete mixer in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Lopez was in a concrete mixer truck early Tuesday morning when a 985-foot cargo ship slammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge. Alexus Davila, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2024 In the 1990s the company added a Redi-Mix concrete plant and front discharge concrete mixer trucks in its concrete division. Kevin Dayhoff, Baltimore Sun, 27 Jan. 2024 The superiority of western armed forces, particularly in the areas of artillery and air power, have forced their potential adversaries to pick up a shovel and switch on the concrete mixer. Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 27 June 2023

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“Concrete mixer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/concrete%20mixer. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.

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