How to Use fire truck in a Sentence
fire truck
noun-
He, the rest of his crew, and a fire truck watched from across the street.
— David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Nov. 2020 -
At least 20 fire trucks were called in over the course of a few hours.
— Marisa Sullivan, Peoplemag, 16 May 2023 -
The team that pulls the fire truck a distance of 40 feet the fastest will win.
— Elizabeth Marie Himchak, Pomerado News, 19 Sep. 2019 -
As the plane comes to a halt, fire trucks douse the plane with water.
— Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 8 May 2024 -
The event starts at 2 p.m. and ends at 7 p.m. when Santa leaves in a fire truck.
— Johanna Seltz, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Nov. 2022 -
Biden brought both an ice-cream truck and a fire truck.
— Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2019 -
Did any of you see the CincyFests fire truck in the parade?
— Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 13 Apr. 2022 -
The wall of flames shot out the building and burned seats inside a fire truck across the street.
— Stefanie Dazio and Frank Baker, Houston Chronicle, 17 May 2020 -
Sixty-mile-per-hour gusts peeled back the door on a fire truck.
— Jennifer Oldham, ProPublica, 27 Dec. 2022 -
No one was in the fire truck at the time of the collision, state police said.
— Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 4 Jan. 2023 -
When the siloviki returned with the fire truck, dressed in all black, the whole group stormed the building.
— New York Times, 30 Mar. 2022 -
The fire chief said that the lieutenant had never gotten off the fire truck.
— Jessica Jaglois, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Feb. 2023 -
The Highlander had five occupants and the fire truck had one.
— Chicago Tribune, 1 July 2023 -
There are four, sometimes five, people in the fire truck at a time.
— Isabella Zarate, AZCentral.com, 30 July 2023 -
The protesters set fire to one of the buses and turned back a fire truck that rushed to douse it.
— Krishan Francis, ajc, 2 Apr. 2022 -
The pair are scheduled to arrive aboard a Park Ridge fire truck.
— Jennifer Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 20 Nov. 2021 -
Images taken at the crash scene showed the front of a sedan stuck underneath the back of the fire truck.
— Greg Norman, Fox News, 22 Aug. 2022 -
The highlight of the event will be Santa’s arrival on a fire truck.
— Carol Kovach, cleveland, 28 Nov. 2021 -
About 75 cars and one fire truck came out for the residents.
— Joshua Gunter, cleveland, 13 Apr. 2020 -
Last summer, Kylie Miller sat in a fire truck while flames rose in front of her.
— Alexandria Groth, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 June 2019 -
There are no fire trucks, there’s no way to put anything out.
— Sean Illing, Vox, 23 June 2024 -
Manny heard sirens in the distance but did not see any fire trucks.
— Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 6 Feb. 2024 -
At night, fire trucks would roar down 23rd Street, the sound of their sirens ripping through the darkness.
— Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024 -
By the time a fire truck arrived, the car was fully engulfed in flames, Rohrbach said.
— Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 27 July 2023 -
The historic buildings will be open and the 1929 fire truck will be on display.
— Carol Kovach, cleveland, 7 Sep. 2021 -
There were no fire personnel in the fire truck at the time of the collision.
— Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2019 -
Hours later, the chain the man had been waving lay on the street between two cones and a fire truck.
— Colin Campbell, baltimoresun.com, 8 Oct. 2020 -
Highlight of the event will be Santa’s arrival on a fire truck at 4:45 p.m.
— Carol Kovach, cleveland, 21 Nov. 2022 -
The longest dinosaur in the world, the Argentinosaurus, was as big as four fire trucks.
— Marilyn La Jeunesse, Parents, 15 July 2024 -
William sat in the passenger seat of a fire truck and operated a water pump to extinguish the blaze.
— Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 9 July 2024
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