Sentence examples for van from inspiring English sources
The word "van" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to a large enclosed vehicular vehicle often used for transporting goods or people. For example, "My family rented a van for our road trip to the beach."
noun
A (covered) vehicle used for carrying goods or people, usually roughly cuboid in shape, longer and higher than a car but smaller than a truck (USA) / lorry (English).
- The van sped down the road.
Gray died a week after he was arrested on 12 April, then handcuffed and shackled in the back of a police van without a seatbelt.
Baltimore television station WBAL interviewed a person that it described as a relative of one of the officers in the van.
A Washington Post article published on Wednesday revealed vague details of a police document that quoted a prisoner who had been placed in the same police van as Gray – though in a separate compartment – as saying Gray had been "trying to injure himself".
The initiative will enable their publisher, the CN Group, to piggyback on national morning paper distribution, so most of the company's 29 van drivers are likely to be made redundant.
The van speeds on again, the jubilant music now sounding jarringly discordant.
As the van slows down beside a crowd of people, I glimpse a bloodied body in the dusty street.
Instead the focus of everyone's attention was left to congratulate himself on his decision-making – "It was about the substitutes," Van Gaal volunteered – on an evening when the only real downside for United was the injury bulletin about Luke Shaw, Jonny Evans and Antonio Valencia.
There were mint-green pumps, polka-dot kitten heels with ankle straps, pointy-toed brown Dries Van Noten rip-offs and, my favourite, a red and white candy-striped pair with a buckle.
Shell said pay for Van Beurden "reflects delivery of company strategy, measured by both short-term and long-term targets".
Rooney has impressed during his team's tour of the United States, which finished with a 3-1 victoverover Liverpool in Miami, enabling Van Gaal's side to win the International Champions Cup.
Having followed in to contest the ball, Völler appeared to do all he could to avoid clattering Van Breuckelen in mid-air but an incensed Rijkaard attempted to drag Völler to his feet by the ear, then stamped on his foot, prompting the German to fall to the ground.
