Example sentences for: lorry

How can you use “lorry” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Rig once applied to wagons; so did truck and its British counterpart lorry .

  • It is wrong to think that British speakers never say truck for lorry, escalator for moving stairway , and so forth.

  • Not only do they know the words and phrases, to which they have been exposed through travel, tourists, movies, television, reading, and ordinary commerce--the properly descriptive word, intercourse , comes to mind only to be suppressed--but they use them, sometimes as free variants, sometimes with specialized meanings: there are some who might say that a truck is different from a lorry , but practice varies.


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