9 sentences with 'van'
Example sentences and phrases with the word van and other words derived from it.
• « The van was thrown off to the right, crossed two lanes, hit the side lawn, somersaulted several times, and finally landed in a sea of glass shards. »
• « To show me how he works, Guiler takes me in his van on a special trip to Tasmania's unpopulated west coast. »
• « Then he turned the steering wheel from side to side, causing the van to zigzag and skid like a skier in the snow. »
• « Around 1880, the Belgian photographer Désiré van Monckhoven devised a new development method, the dry plate, which eliminated the need to coat the plates with wet collodion before use. As dry plates were very expensive, Lumiére set out to make a similar product at home. »
• « With a balance lent to them by the local pharmacist, much more accurate than their mother's, Louis improved on van Monckhoven's method. The plate he obtained not only gave better results in less time, but could also be mass-produced. »
• « When Kathy Mendiola of Bonney Lake, Washington, pulled her seven-year-old daughter Lisa out of the back of a cargo van owned by a neighbour, she was struck by the girl's ashen face and her dozing appearance. »