motor lorry
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of motor lorry
First recorded in 1900–05
Example Sentences
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When the flushed birds have been winged, a motor lorry will roll up.
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Munnings retired, red-faced, returned presently with a motor lorry, demanded his own 15 can vases.
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Copies of the leading dailies, going out by motor lorry and dugout canoe, eventually reach even the remotest regions�a much-needed unifying influence on Nigeria's mosaic of 250 tribes.
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A motor lorry loaded with Green Police, followed by a limousine, made its way through Berlin to the Reichstag.
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Our means of supply all that time would be, perforce, the long road haul by motor lorry, by mule or ox or donkey transport, two hundred miles, from the Northern Railway.
From Sketches of the East Africa Campaign by Dolbey, Robert Valentine
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