Definition: 1. A large vehicle for carrying heavy loads by road. 2. A large truck designed to carry heavy loads; usually without sides.
Use 'lorry' in a sentence:
1. Their lorry got stuck in the mud.
2. A lorry travelling south had a blow-out and crashed.
3. This bridge can bear the weight of the heaviest lorry.
4. Witnesses have confirmed that at some time during this half-hour, they saw the two men, without hoods, leave the lorry separately.
5. He gets caviare that has fallen off the back of a lorry.
6. The first suspect, who got out of the driver's side of the lorry, was about 5 foot 6 inches tall, and fat.
7. To his surprise I joined in and so while the lorry rolled onwards, the boys in the back maintained the chorus while the driver and I harmonized and sang complicated bits.
8. Seemingly out of nowhere, a lorry pulled up.
9. Tractors and container lorries have completely obstructed the road.
10. Trying to do this behind a big lorry on a motorway is extremely dangerous.
11. Boat and tip lorry are placed to be in the storehouse of the new home.
12. The lorries always left in the dead of night when there were few witnesses around to record the fact.
13. Commercial vehicles, coaches and lorries are required by law to be fitted with tachographs.
14. They used lorries to batter down embassy gates.
15. "Sorry, I'll borrow the lorry tomorrow," the sorrowful man said worriedly in the corridor.
16. He tried to overtake three cars on a blind corner and crashed head-on into a lorry.
17. This paper discusses the key problems in the design of hydraulic control system of concrete agitating lorry.
18. Traffic from Jordan to Iraq is down to a dozen loaded lorries a day, compared with a high of 200 a day.
19. The lorry driver lost control and banged the road divider.
20. No one noticed the boy as he crept off. From there, he hitchhiked to Paris in a lorry.
21. The camera which filmed the men was about 200 metres away from a parked lorry which the robbers later used as a getaway vehicle.
22. The container could be transported on a ship, a train or a big lorry.
23. A van and a lorry were parked there.
24. Two of the lorries, carrying industrial resin and paint thinner, burst into flames.
25. The driver usually spends four hours or so helping to load and prepare his lorry.
26. It could be transported on a ship, train or big lorry.
27. Lorry drivers say they have almost abandoned the practice of signal cars to overtake when the road is clear, because many of the cars took too long to pass.
28. According to the police, the lorry, stolen in the parking lot of the City Mall, last month, had been repainted from white to silver, and fitted with false registration plates.
29. They used a lorry to ram the main gate.
30. The lorry veered out of control, overturned and smashed into a wall.
31. The latest model of the lorry embodies many improvements .
32. The goods will be carried by lorry to Dalian.
33. Lorry drivers say they have almost abandoned the practice of signalling cars to overtake when the road is clear, because many of the cars took too long to pass.
34. They tried to hush up the matter they hijacked a lorry driver.
35. The army lorries were sprayed with machine gun fire from guerrillas in the woods.
36. The newspapers are then delivered by lorry, plane or rail.
37. The country's only supplies are those it can import by lorry from Vietnam.
38. A little later a lorry rolls over her injured body.
39. The men were also filmed wearing hoods as they ran towards the lorry after the robbery.
40. Horrified commuters saw the lorry veer across the motorway and overturn.
41. The lorry driver escaped unhurt, but a pedestrian was injured.
42. Striking lorry drivers agreed to lift their blockades of main roads.
43. He looked straight ahead and overtook a lumbering lorry.
44. They left the lorry together.
45. Now and then they heard the roar of a heavy lorry.
46. Police cars, their sirens wailing, accompanied the lorries.
47. A number of local people have been arrested for trying to obstruct lorries loaded with logs.
48. The traffic jam was caused by a lorry shedding its load.
49. A lorry shed its load on the motorway.
50. My dad is a lorry driver.
51. A lorry piled with scrap metal had shed its load.
52. Emergency food supplies were brought in by lorry.
53. The lorry clipped the rear of a tanker and then crashed into a second truck.
54. The lorry quietly rolled forward.
55. I've got half a ton of gravel in the lorry but he won't sign my delivery note.
56. Pete once bought the boys a bicycle cheap off the back of a lorry.
57. The lorry was travelling at 20mph in the slow lane.
