How to Use lorry in a Sentence

lorry

noun

• Now there are special buses to bring in staff and a lorry park for drivers.
  — Sarah O'Connor, Ars Technica, 19 Mar. 2022
• Every year, 2 million lorries pass through this small town on their way to and from the port.
  — Georgina Voss, The Atlantic, 20 June 2018
• As lorries burned and bullets cracked across the city, bystanders picked up their children and fled.
  — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
• Many of them are itinerant, moving their colonies around the country on lorries in search of pollen and nectar.
  — The Economist, 8 Apr. 2020
• One of the many articulated lorries has backed up for loading.
  — Sebastian Shukla, CNN, 16 Oct. 2024
• Die Schwarze-Gelbe had a lorry load of chances to score in the game, but failed to convert any of them into a goal.
  — SI.com, 15 Jan. 2018
• Instead, when the lorries arrived with more beer, the Scots hopped aboard and helped unload the kegs themselves.
  — Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 3 June 2026
• Half a world away, in Philadelphia, her husband’s work as a lorry driver has dried up.
  — The Economist, 16 Apr. 2020
• As part of the plan, the government is building lorry parks to hold vehicles that don’t have the right documents.
  — Joe Mayes, Bloomberg.com, 15 Sep. 2020
• The plan was welcomed by some residents, who had fiercely campaigned against a new lorry depot destined for the same site.
  — Morgan Meaker and Isabel Fraser, WIRED, 3 July 2024
• Barges emit fewer greenhouses gases, use less fuel and cause far fewer deaths and injuries than lorries or trains.
  — The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017
• The chemicals used to process quinine are costly and come by lorry from Tanzania.
  — The Economist, 8 June 2019
• As dusk draws in, the convoy pulls into a compound, articulated lorries lined up.
  — Sebastian Shukla, CNN, 16 Oct. 2024
• In the morning, there’s a concrete lorry parked outside, preparing to pipe in a motherlode.
  — Literary Hub, 21 Nov. 2025
• The Kenya Red Cross said the lorry rammed more than six vehicles and ran over pedestrians.
  — Reuters, CNN, 1 July 2023
• Key ports are paralyzed as customs agents, dockworkers, lorry drivers and rail workers halt work.
  — Helen Regan, CNN, 30 Apr. 2021
• 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
• Agents bought five lorries, and hired drivers who transported various goods to maintain their cover.
  — Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025
• Moses Mungai has driven a maize lorry for four hours to get here, from a border town in the foothills of Kilimanjaro.
  — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
• Their corpses were loaded into a lorry and cremated before the remains were dropped into a mineshaft and soaked in acid.
  — Terry Hartle, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Sep. 2017
• Walking up Stamford Street with lorries thundering by.
  — Literary Hub, 13 Apr. 2026
• To mitigate the risk, the government has built lorry parks and drivers entering Kent will require a permit or risk a fine.
  — Ian Wishart, Bloomberg.com, 24 Dec. 2020
• Even though the country sits on a sea of the stuff, the fuel needed to be transported by lorry hundreds of kilometres across the desert from Jeddah.
  — The Economist, 28 Nov. 2020
• Small firms sending limited consignments have been unable to share space on the same lorry, while many shipments have faced lengthy delays, causing products to spoil.
  — Joe Mayes, Bloomberg.com, 22 Mar. 2021
• In the years prior to this, most people smuggling was done in lorries, via cross-Channel ferries or the Eurotunnel.
  — The Week Uk, theweek, 1 Dec. 2024
• The accused include a nurse, a journalist, a prison warden, a local councillor, a soldier, lorry drivers and farm workers.
  — Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk, theweek, 11 Nov. 2024
• The idea appears to have captured the imagination of both transport SMEs and lorry owners.
  — David Prosser, Forbes, 22 June 2022
• The theft occurred when three vehicles were broken into in a lorry park in Mexborough in Yorkshire while a unit was shooting nearby.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 2 Mar. 2022
• Use containers of standard sizes that can be loaded onto trains, lorries or ships as needed; use scale to cut costs; co-ordinate the whole thing with a physical paper trail.
  — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
• Users include party-goers, slimmers who take the drug as an appetite suppressant and others such as students and lorry and taxi drivers who want to stay awake for long periods.
  — The Economist, 18 July 2017