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    Use "van" in a sentence

    van example sentences

    van


    1. By the way, that Bedford Van that blew over in 1971; can somebody please turn it back over?


    2. 'Of course, he didn't go through everything when it came back, he just oversaw Dan unloading the van and shoved the boxes in the store room


    3. I gather that he often uses the van from the garage when the drama group needs stuff transported


    4. He remembered one Sunday when Alice was unloading a guitar from her VW van


    5. ‘Then we’ll hire a man with a van here in Taunton and you can go back up there on Tuesday to collect the rest of it then


    6. All the stuff has been packed up in boxes now – thank you, off licence! The pots in the garden will have to wait for the man with the van


    7. It took some time, but by mid afternoon, we had packed all her furniture into the van and she locked the house up for the last time


    8. The man drove his van back to The Stables while we took a slight detour via Liz’s landlord in order to hand back the keys


    9. ’ I muttered at one point spotting the man carrying his tools past the window to put in his van


    10. The van drives away as soon as John is inside

    11. John sits on his knees in the dark van, lurches forward as the driver speeds away


    12. It takes a second to realise that they are not working … the back of the van growing ever closer, I pump frantically at the brake pedal and swing the car onto the hard shoulder


    13. It seems a white van came out of nowhere, cut in front of him – you know how they do - and then did the same to Liz


    14. He says that she tried to avoid crashing into the back of the van by swinging the car onto the hard shoulder but hit a patch of gravel or something and skidded straight into the bridge


    15. Her act caught the attention of a driver of a delivery van passing by, who pulled over to the curb beside her


    16. I gather there was some idiot of a white van driver pulling in and out of the traffic, Liz had to brake when the van pulled in front of her


    17. The front doors of the van banged shut and I heard the gears whine as the driver engaged first


    18. The movement of the van made me lean into the body next to mine


    19. Now I had one more feeling to add to the list of fondly remembered moments in my still unfulfilled emotional life: that touch in the van, that trembling caress of fingers hidden from Robbie and the guards


    20. My experience of life might seem deplorably meagre to many, but still had those moments to cherish, and I believed, sitting in the back of that van with Robbie, that I would have a life full of such joys

    21. We had no choice but to abandon our meagre collection of belongings as we were hooded and hurried down into another waiting van


    22. After about an hour the van drew to a halt and one by one the guards forced us to leave the van and kneel down in cold, damp mud


    23. and stops at traffic lights, where a white Fiat van


    24. I remembered that we were on roads the whole time I was in that van


    25. Most of the passengers were herded onto an old bus whereas my bit of the queue, and by that I mean myself and an older man carrying a huge cabbage, was cramped inside the rear of a much abused and dented van which was to be our very own shuttle up the mountain to Sophia


    26. Look at me! I used to teach English there and now I drive this damned van


    27. As if for confirmation, I climbed out of the van just in case it was a dream


    28. Astride a couple of motor bikes sat a couple of other visitors, rather obvious in matching wraparound sunglasses, identical maroon shorts and gaudy waterproofs; I couldn't help but wonder why they found our van so fascinating


    29. At the turning area in the light from an old van and a single bulb in a shed, fifteen or so fishermen crunch on the gravel, concentrating hard whilst straightening coloured nets and winding spiky lines around their baskets with bare hands


    30. Later that night in the Orgasmatron Nightclub, where the boys had gone for some shampoo and some dancing after another hard week at the tactical grindstone, Terry told his best friend, left-back and room-mate, 'Boozo' Van Honk, that he was going to marry Bling

    31. He was being busy and I would have to wait - just as I did when we arrived in his van


    32. If I borrowed the van again I could be at the airport in plenty of time and it was downhill most of the way


    33. Auntie waved and waved as the van coughed and farted down the mountain to the airport for the second time that day


    34. That same Sunday morning, following an anonymous tip off, various large and burly members of the Manchester police force’s vice squad battered down Danny’s front door, dragged him out of bed and bruisingly bundled him into the back of a white van


    35. They kept a cat just long enough to form a deep, surrogate attachment to the creature’s aloof singularity, before Eileen watched Mister Tibbles play a one sided game of tag with the postal service van one rainy May morning


    36. van rushed up Whitehall to where they were protesting


    37. the van screeched to a halt by the memorial, that seven uniformed


    38. officers bundled out of the van and these same officers managed,


    39. The van containing the police officers and their securely


    40. and room-mate, 'Boozo' Van Honk, that he was going to marry

    41. bed and bruisingly bundled him into the back of a white van


    42. He is the son of a bitch who tricked her into the van


    43. sported a van dyke beard and moustache, and who Tom had no


    44. ‘You don’t reckon he could have taken the van, do you?’ Andy said sharply breaking in on Ozzie’s platitudinal response to Kev


    45. She alone could be sure that the van was still where it had been left, though fleetingly she had been carried along with the pretence she was enacting


    46. But he’d not dared, convinced that Ozzie would hear the van and dreading what would be said when they were confronted


    47. Gradually, it became an identifiable van


    48. The van drove past and his hope died


    49. Almost tearful with disappointment, he faced again the direction he was heading in and saw the van had come to a halt just up the road


    50. ’ The driver commented, putting the van into gear and driving off again














































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    Synonyms for "van"

    van caravan vanguard avant-garde new wave front outpost

    "van" definitions

    any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)


    the leading units moving at the head of an army


    (Great Britain) a closed railroad car that carries baggage or freight


    a camper equipped with living quarters


    a truck with an enclosed cargo space