van

[væn]

Definition:
1. A covered vehicle with no side windows in its back half, usually smaller than a lorry/truck, used for carrying goods or people.
2. A closed coach/car on a train for carrying bags, cases, etc. or mail.

Use 'van' in a sentence:

1. The Mercedes began to gain on the van.
2. This lunatic in a white van pulled out right in front of me!
3. The coffin was loaded into the van of the train.
4. The man's wife, a passenger in the van, was uninjured in the accident.
5. Van Gogh is probably the best-known painter in the world.
6. Deliveries are made by common carrier or van line.
7. Despite success stories like van Oosten's, preservation of plastics will likely get harder.
8. Here he is, the one and only Van Morrison!
9. Our van runs on diesel.
10. The inside of a van was as good a place as any to hold a kidnap victim.
11. The device exploded underneath a van.
12. The back wheels spun and the van spurted up the last few feet.
13. The car collided head-on with a van.
14. The Belgian actor Jean Claude Van Damme has been dubbed 'Muscles from Brussels'.
15. It will probably work out cheaper to hire a van and move your own things.
16. The van has additional load space over the driver's cab.
17. He checked his mirror and saw that a dark coloured van was immediately behind him.
18. We spent years travelling around in a rusty old van.
19. There was a loud thump as the horse crashed into the van.
20. Graham put the van in neutral and jumped out into the road.
21. He was catapulted into the side of the van.
22. A van was parked at the side of the road.
23. Violence erupted as the boys were driven away in two police vans.
24. Van Oosten and colleagues worked to preserve Gilardi's sculptures.
25. A Luton van has additional load space over the driver's cab.
26. They were on their way to the airport when their van was involved in a collision with a car.
27. They traced the van to a New Jersey car rental agency.
28. The driver got out of his van.
29. The van's totally clapped out.
30. In the guard's van lay my tin trunk.
31. This isn't a suitable place to unload the van.
32. The arrival of the charity van set off a minor riot as villagers scrambled for a share of the aid.
33. Most people have very little difficulty in seeing why a Van Gogh is a work of genius.
34. Her car crashed into the rear of a van.
35. They helped us put our gear back into the van.
36. I drove cross-country in his van.
37. We know he has a light green van.
38. A red van was parked in front of the house.
39. He made a living of sorts selling pancakes from a van.
40. The car and the van collided head-on in thick fog.
41. The car collided head-on with the van.
42. It was unbelievably dramatic as lightning crackled all around the van.
43. His van allegedly struck the two as they were crossing a street.
44. We bought a camper van so we could go away whenever the fancy took us.
45. He inched the van forward.
46. Van Gogh had a major influence on the development of modern painting.
47. Even the experts took the painting for a genuine Van Gogh.
48. He was killed at a road junction by a van driver who went through a red light.