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Later, grandmother and granddaughter drive down a road of African palm trees, passing a lorry load of immigrants, monotonous electricity grid lines crossing the sky and workers fumigating trees, Villalobos accumulating details of a harsh contemporary world.—John Hopewell, Variety, 8 Apr. 2026 The Chancellor Gordon Brown reacted by cutting duty on ultra-low sulphur petrol, freezing duty on other grades of motor fuel, putting more vehicles into the lowest vehicle excise duty band — a tax cut for most lorries — and taxing foreign truckers using British roads.—Ian King, CNBC, 18 Mar. 2026 To avoid trucks that could swallow the Yaris whole in their grills, there are elbows to pull off onto and let lorries or more aggressive cars pass.—Timothy Latterner, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Feb. 2026 In the morning, there’s a concrete lorry parked outside, preparing to pipe in a motherlode.—Literary Hub, 21 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for lorry