How to Use big rig in a Sentence

big rig

noun

• Callers reported the 53-foot-long big rig went off the right side of the freeway and down the hill.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2024
• Uribe said the collision left the driver of the big rig with minor injuries to his left hand.
  — Jason Green, The Mercury News, 2 May 2024
• The van was on its side, and the front of the semi was mangled as the big rig and its load lay in a ditch by the highway, partially on its side.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 9 Mar. 2024
• The big rig, a Walmart truck, overturned shortly before noon in the middle of the eastbound deck.
  — Jordan Parker, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2023
• The mechanics travel from city to city with the trucks, which are transported on big rigs.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
• Drivers stuck behind them had to wait for specialty tow trucks to come in and haul the big rigs out of the way to allow traffic to flow, said Sgt.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 16 Mar. 2024
• In 2008, two tornado clouds in Riverside County flipped a big rig and derailed a freight train.
  — Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2023
• An 18-wheeler struck the stopped vehicles, and then a second big rig hit the first, Segura said.
  — Zaeem Shaikh, Dallas News, 12 Sep. 2023
• That impact caused the Dodge to spin out and travel into the path of the big rig, which broadsided the left side of the Dodge before crashing through a fence along the highway.
  — Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2024
• The pileup involved 17 cars and 18 big rigs, KABC reported.
  — Sarah Al-Arshani, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2024
• All southbound lanes on the 5 Freeway were shut down after two people were killed in a crash involving a big rig.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2023
• Other vehicles stuck behind them had to wait for specialty tow trucks to come in and haul the big rigs out of the way to allow traffic to flow.
  — CBS News, 16 Mar. 2024
• The Unimog is neither quick nor light on its feet, but in terms of off-road capability, this big rig makes the G-class seem like an S-class.
  — Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 5 May 2023
• The trucking industry has complained for years that there is a dire shortage of workers willing to drive big rigs.
  — Peter Eavis, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• On Monday, a small step was made to encourage the adoption of electrically powered big rigs in the area.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2023
• The regenerative braking really brought the EV big rig to a crawl at times, too.
  — Cameron Aubernon, Popular Science, 15 May 2024
• Aurora sees a bright future for testing out its self-driving big rigs.
  — Alexandra Skores, Dallas News, 29 June 2023
• Advertisement Cars regularly overheat, big rigs catch fire on the side of the road.
  — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2024
• The company’s latest product is a Class-8 electric big rig.
  — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2022
• The Bankhead Tunnel has been the site of some dramatic images such as big rigs sheered in half, or moving trucks jammed into the tunnel’s concrete entrance.
  — John Sharp | [e-mail], al, 16 Aug. 2023
• Some expensive electric big rigs have already hit the market.
  — Nadia Lopez, USA TODAY, 2 May 2023
• The suspect stopped the big rig on a dirt shoulder, put it into reverse and rammed into one of the police vehicles, disabling it, Maqueira said.
  — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
• In the midst of a truck driver shortage last year, Walmart decided its own ranks of 1.6 million employees might want to learn how to drive a big rig for Walmart.
  — Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 28 July 2023
• Conversations can be held at a natural volume, a marvel in a big rig.
  — Jonathon Ramsey, Car and Driver, 13 May 2023
• The mandate is the first in the world to ban new diesel trucks and require a switch to zero-emission big rigs, garbage trucks, delivery trucks and other medium and heavy-duty vehicles.
  — Nadia Lopez, USA TODAY, 2 May 2023
• Based on the company's renderings, Greenlane's sites will be much more comfortable for big rigs.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 28 Apr. 2023
• At one point, Rodgers was forced to drive his commercial big rig using just a flashlight because floodwaters had risen above his headlights.
  — Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 18 Jan. 2023
• None of the companies testing autonomous trucks in the US have removed safety drivers, who are trained to take over when the vehicle goes wrong, from behind the wheels of their big rigs.
  — WIRED, 23 Sep. 2023
• Linder said travel along I-80 is expected to re-open later this afternoon for big rigs and semi-trucks.
  — Angela Rodriguez, Sacramento Bee, 4 Mar. 2024
• More recently, Miller has helmed The Times’ ongoing coverage of last year’s Brink’s big rig jewelry heist.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024