dump truck
noun
: an automotive truck for the transportation of bulk material that has a body which tilts to dump its contents
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Small plastic children’s toys lined at the top of the car — dinosaurs and dump trucks and sharks — creating their own shrunken skyline in front of the Vertigo, signaling that young kids likely lived there.
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Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
Crews can move a dump truck's worth of sand onto the beach every few minutes, material that has helped rebuild dunes at South Beach and Norton Point.
—Jacob Wycoff, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
At one point, a man appears to emerge from the home and yell profanities in Spanish in the direction of the dump truck.
—Greg Norman-Diamond, FOXNews.com, 15 Apr. 2026
Dash cam video showed the bus initially colliding with the dump truck.
—Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 30 Mar. 2026
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Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
Crews can move a dump truck's worth of sand onto the beach every few minutes, material that has helped rebuild dunes at South Beach and Norton Point.
—Jacob Wycoff, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
At one point, a man appears to emerge from the home and yell profanities in Spanish in the direction of the dump truck.
—Greg Norman-Diamond, FOXNews.com, 15 Apr. 2026
Dash cam video showed the bus initially colliding with the dump truck.
—Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 30 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for dump truck
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“Dump truck.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dump%20truck. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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