Sentence examples for size of freight from inspiring English sources

Most of what there was to see was traffic-related: gas-station logos, trucks the size of freight trains, snakeskin shreds of tire on the soft shoulder.

The decline of heavy industry in the area, the increasing size of freight-carrying ships, and competition from road transport, brought about the decline of the terminal docks at Salford, which closed in 1982.

"We dodged a bullet the size of a freight train," notes Amy Wilkins of the Education Trust, an advocacy group in Washington.

The original home had been rebuilt and reborn as a majestic four-bedroom Colonial with a maple and granite gourmet kitchen and a walk-in closet upstairs about the size of a freight elevator.

At the time, he was living in an apartment in San Diego about the size of a freight elevator, just steps from the bustling boardwalk and raucous roller coaster on Mission Beach.

The total size of the freight brokerage market is $80 billion.

So in early January Altair also built its first pair of industrial 1-megawatt batteries each about the size of a freight car designed to store excess electricity produced at night.