Sentence examples for a queue of lorries from inspiring English sources

A strike by Chilean customs officials in 2013 caused a queue of lorries 20km (12 miles) long in Bolivia.

That rumour turned about to be false, so hundreds just sat down on the tarmac and blocked a queue of lorries.

Each time a queue of lorries formed, the migrants – many of whom have fled war and persecution in the Middle East and east Africa – abandoned what they were doing and ran up the bank to try and break into them.

Each time a queue of lorries formed on the motorway above the camp, people abandoned what they were doing – washing, sleeping, eating – and scrambled up the bank to try to get past the police.

Near Qamishli, in the north-east, a queue of Syrian lorries heading for Iraq stretches 30km (19 miles).

On November 21st a mountainous stretch of the highway to Buenaventura, the country's busiest port, collapsed at Alto de La Línea, causing a massive queue of lorries.

She said the secure zone for freight vehicles queueing to cross the Channel would provide protection for the equivalent of a 2.5-mile queue of lorries on the open approach roads, where they have been targeted by criminal gangs.

The queue of lorries waiting to enter Santos sometimes stretched to 40km.No part of that journey makes sense.

The queue of lorries from the Mato Grosso taking soy to the port of Santos stretched 15 miles.

The two authors reckon that this competition accounts for about half of the increase in the household saving rate in 1990-2007.China's elephantine industryA long queue of lorries laden with coal is waiting to pass through the toll booth to Zhuo Zi Shan, a town not far from Hohhot.

a library (with a queue of eager children outside it).