dump truck
noun
: an automotive truck for the transportation of bulk material that has a body which tilts to dump its contents
Examples of dump truck in a Sentence
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Massive piles of mining waste around the rest of the 160-acre landscape enough to fill 250,000 dump trucks are contaminated with arsenic, mercury and other toxics.
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Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2024
Soldiers used bulldozers and dump trucks to help clear tons of boulders and earth clogging streets and roads that were turned into raging torrents a day earlier.
—Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 21 Aug. 2023
More than 200 daily personnel working around the clock used 86 excavators and 54 dump trucks to deliver 200,000 tons of rock, bail 300,000 cubic yards of sediment and deploy 15,000 sandbags.
—Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2024
Featuring a crane truck, excavator, road roller, dump truck, and front loader, this construction set will keep them busy until quitting time.
—Sharon Brandwein, Southern Living, 13 Feb. 2024
Two dump truck operators were killed last April when they were engulfed by a wall of black sludge-like material following the collapse of a nickel waste disposal site in Central Sulawesi province, which has the largest nickel reserves in Indonesia.
—Mohammad Taufan, Quartz, 12 Feb. 2024
The average dump truck usually carries about 10 to 14 cubic yards.
—Laylan Connelly, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
Officers believe the dump truck turned from going eastbound to southbound South West Street.
—Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Jan. 2024
However, the crew chief admittedly gave permission for the employee to take the dump truck home during the workday on a few occasions for specific reasons, such as to retrieve medication, according to the report.
—Tony Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 3 Jan. 2024
Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2024
Soldiers used bulldozers and dump trucks to help clear tons of boulders and earth clogging streets and roads that were turned into raging torrents a day earlier.
—Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 21 Aug. 2023
More than 200 daily personnel working around the clock used 86 excavators and 54 dump trucks to deliver 200,000 tons of rock, bail 300,000 cubic yards of sediment and deploy 15,000 sandbags.
—Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2024
Featuring a crane truck, excavator, road roller, dump truck, and front loader, this construction set will keep them busy until quitting time.
—Sharon Brandwein, Southern Living, 13 Feb. 2024
Two dump truck operators were killed last April when they were engulfed by a wall of black sludge-like material following the collapse of a nickel waste disposal site in Central Sulawesi province, which has the largest nickel reserves in Indonesia.
—Mohammad Taufan, Quartz, 12 Feb. 2024
The average dump truck usually carries about 10 to 14 cubic yards.
—Laylan Connelly, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
Officers believe the dump truck turned from going eastbound to southbound South West Street.
—Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Jan. 2024
However, the crew chief admittedly gave permission for the employee to take the dump truck home during the workday on a few occasions for specific reasons, such as to retrieve medication, according to the report.
—Tony Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 3 Jan. 2024
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First Known Use
circa 1924, in the meaning defined above
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dump truck
noun
: a truck for carrying and dumping loose material
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