How to Use fire truck in a Sentence

fire truck

noun
  • At least 20 fire trucks were called in over the course of a few hours.
    Marisa Sullivan, Peoplemag, 16 May 2023
  • The event starts at 2 p.m. and ends at 7 p.m. when Santa leaves in a fire truck.
    Johanna Seltz, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Did any of you see the CincyFests fire truck in the parade?
    Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Sixty-mile-per-hour gusts peeled back the door on a fire truck.
    Jennifer Oldham, ProPublica, 27 Dec. 2022
  • No one was in the fire truck at the time of the collision, state police said.
    Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 4 Jan. 2023
  • When the siloviki returned with the fire truck, dressed in all black, the whole group stormed the building.
    New York Times, 30 Mar. 2022
  • The fire chief said that the lieutenant had never gotten off the fire truck.
    Jessica Jaglois, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The Highlander had five occupants and the fire truck had one.
    Chicago Tribune, 1 July 2023
  • There are four, sometimes five, people in the fire truck at a time.
    Isabella Zarate, AZCentral.com, 30 July 2023
  • The protesters set fire to one of the buses and turned back a fire truck that rushed to douse it.
    Krishan Francis, ajc, 2 Apr. 2022
  • Images taken at the crash scene showed the front of a sedan stuck underneath the back of the fire truck.
    Greg Norman, Fox News, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Manny heard sirens in the distance but did not see any fire trucks.
    Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 6 Feb. 2024
  • By the time a fire truck arrived, the car was fully engulfed in flames, Rohrbach said.
    Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 27 July 2023
  • Highlight of the event will be Santa’s arrival on a fire truck at 4:45 p.m.
    Carol Kovach, cleveland, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Enjoy food trucks, see a fire truck up close, and take part in giveaways.
    Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2022
  • There will be no fire truck or fire station at the harbor under the plan.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2022
  • About 45 minutes later, the same user posted a video of a fire truck on the scene.
    Julianne McShane, NBC News, 10 July 2022
  • Calling 911 for a fire truck to respond to a fire is normal.
    Sam Zern, The Enquirer, 14 July 2022
  • The Quattroporte fire truck will go up for bid on Friday, Feb. 2, in Paris.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Watch the full episode of The Kardashians episode 6 on Hulu here, with the fire truck scene beginning at the 21-minute mark.
    Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 18 May 2022
  • The lead image featured the mansion going up in flames as a fire truck dumped water to douse the blaze.
    Rachel Wegner, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Later that evening, the fire truck began to shake, and a flagpole near the vehicle snapped in two.
    Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 21 May 2022
  • Madison has the first operational electric fire truck in the U.S., a sign of what's to come.
    Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Breunig’s birthday events didn’t stop with the fire truck ride, either.
    Fox News, 11 June 2022
  • When a fire breaks out, your child and the Rescue Heroes team can save the day, all thanks to this transforming fire truck.
    Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Whitaker had remained in the fire truck, according to the chief’s statement.
    Nick Valencia, CNN, 13 Feb. 2023
  • And each fire truck is equipped as an ambulance, with the same equipment and staff training.
    Laurinda Joenks, Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 2023
  • Footage shows one fire truck struggling to spray water at the building from a distance.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The crew’s aging, red and white Soviet-model fire truck rumbled to the scene.
    Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2022
  • His longtime hobby of restoring sailboats resurfaced, this time in the form of a fire truck.
    Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 14 Nov. 2022

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