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moving van
noun
- a large truck or trailer used for transporting furnishings from one residence or office to another.
Word History and Origins
Origin of moving van1
Example Sentences
A hundred miles away, 27 people are buried in a moving van, sweating, crying, and struggling to breathe.
Their prison looks to be a moving van, the sides and ceiling warped from the weight of the surrounding dirt.
They go to Fred’s quarry and bury a moving van, cutting holes for vents and toilets.
A successful book should have a mirror being unloaded from a moving van on page one.
Our national symbol may be the bald eagle but it might as well be the moving van—or, previously, the covered wagon.
Once, he was cooking in the back of a moving van and the lab exploded.
Everything I owned except a suitcase, and the dog and cat, was on a moving van heading north.
His eyes noted almost unconsciously the presence of a large moving van standing near the gateway to the street.
I was riding my brakes but the mass of that moving van was so great that my tires just wore flats on the pavement-side.
When Drew and his band rounded that corner there was no car in sight—only a huge, lumbering moving-van two blocks to the east.
Into the drive rumbled a big automobile, almost like a large moving van.
So I started to pile things on the overturned table, until it looked like a moving-van ready for a May-Day migration.
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