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  • noun Plural form of semi-tractor.

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Examples

  • The boulevard traffic roared past them in noisy, irregular intervals—mostly semi-tractors here, on the edge of town, where the city ran abrupt against the grim heat of the New Mexico desert.

    Bangs Stephen Marlowe 2011

  • Unable to see if a car was in front of her, Frank would nudge her 2000 Ford Focus slowly forward, stopping periodically, before all traffic came to a standstill about 7 p.m. because two semi-tractors had jackknifed at an interchange east of Valparaiso.

    FOXNews.com foxnewsonline@foxnews.com 2010

  • Kate Ergang wasn't worried when two jackknifed semi-tractors trapped her and a friend on an Indiana highway in a blizzard.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • Unable to see if a car was in front of her, Frank would nudge her 2000 Ford Focus slowly forward, stopping periodically, before all traffic came to a standstill about 7 p.m. because two semi-tractors had jackknifed at an interchange east of Valparaiso.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • Unable to see if a car was in front of her, Frank would nudge her 2000 Ford Focus slowly forward, stopping periodically, before all traffic came to a standstill about 7 p.m. because the semi-tractors had jackknifed at an interchange east of Valparaiso.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • Unable to see if a car was in front of her, Frank would nudge her 2000 Ford Focus slowly forward, stopping periodically, before all traffic came to a standstill about 7 p.m. because two semi-tractors had jackknifed at an interchange east of Valparaiso.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • These fuel costs include the fuel utilized in our distribution vehicles (semi-tractors, straight trucks, and sprinter trucks) which is recorded in cost of goods and the fuel utilized in our store delivery vehicles which is included in operating and administrative expenses (the split in the last several years has been approximately 50: 50 between distribution and store use).

    News 2010

  • Unable to see if a car was in front of her, Frank would nudge her 2000 Ford Focus slowly forward, stopping periodically, before all traffic came to a standstill about 7 p.m. because two semi-tractors had jackknifed at an interchange east of Valparaiso.

    The Seattle Times 2010

  • Unable to see if a car was in front of her, Frank would nudge her 2000 Ford Focus slowly forward, stopping periodically, before all traffic came to a standstill about 7 p.m. because two semi-tractors had jackknifed at an interchange east of Valparaiso.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2010

  • Kate Ergang wasn't worried when two jackknifed semi-tractors trapped her and a friend on an

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2010

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