Sentence examples for put on trucks from inspiring English sources

JOINT BASE BALAD, Iraq — Early this year a "fob in a box" — military slang for 80 shipping containers with all the tents, showers and construction material needed to set up a remote forward operating base — was put on trucks here for the trip from one war to another.

Baban's husband and her three oldest sons were put on trucks.

They were put on trucks and took out of the village.

In the past, packages from Cleveland would have been collected in Columbus, then put on trucks to Orlando.

But at some point, much of those goods would still need to be put on trucks, a transfer that would occur at the Maspeth freight yard.

The gang would load the metal on flatbed rail cars -- owned and once used by G.M. -- and roll the cars to a hole in a fence, where the copper was put on trucks and then sold to scrap dealers.

I stayed working in the Ghetto's metal factory until one day we were all put on cattle trucks and sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Twenty-four-inch wheels are now, according to many hip-hop lyrics, the standard size for "big boys" to put on their trucks.

As for the distribution centre, 'a computer tracks how many pallets each employee is plucking every hour to put on to trucks for different stores, and a computerised voice tells each of them whether he is ahead or behind schedule'.

"I was put in a box, and it was nailed up and put on a truck.

Eventually, she was brought to a Congolese army camp and put on a truck back to Faradje.