Get to know Flatbed better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like flatcar or flat.
Flatbed meaning
- An open freight vehicle with no sides, designed to carry heavy or outsized loads.
- A railway freight car with no sides; a flatcar.
- Clipping of flatbed trolley.
Using Flatbed
- The main meaning on this page is: An open freight vehicle with no sides, designed to carry heavy or outsized loads. | A railway freight car with no sides; a flatcar. | Clipping of flatbed trolley.
- Useful related words include: flatcar, flat, freight car, truck bed.
- In the example corpus, flatbed often appears in combinations such as: flatbed truck, the flatbed, on flatbed.
Context around Flatbed
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 7 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Flatbed
- In this selection, "flatbed" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, wheeled, transit, small, truck, trailer and vehicle stand out and add context to how "flatbed" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a flatbed truck is and a gilbert flatbed truck with. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "flatbed" sits close to words such as abdulrazaq, adan and adolphus, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with flatbed
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A flatbed truck is capable of handling any sort of vehicle. (11 words)
A small flatbed passed me, going 80-85, carrying four porta potties. (12 words)
She said that police suspected the two offenders were in a white Ford Transit flatbed. (15 words)
Even with new paper, you can see the feeder causes some bowing as the paper gets pulled in. When scanning old documents or something particularly important, it’s best to use the flatbed scanner. (34 words)
The restoration of a 1934 Guy Wolf Flatbed truck has led to a Somerset man being announced as a winner of a Restoration Award at the National Transport Trust’s (NTT) annual awards. (33 words)
During the work week of Dec. 2-6, someone videotaped a Gilbert flatbed truck with sideboards loading or unloading somewhere on my property and filed a complaint against me. (29 words)
Example sentences (20)
Also stolen during the raid was a white transit van with the Borders Green Team's logo on it and a flatbed trailer.
A truck driver is on the run after a stolen eight-wheeled flatbed truck smashed into homes and cars in Campbelltown.
Even with new paper, you can see the feeder causes some bowing as the paper gets pulled in. When scanning old documents or something particularly important, it’s best to use the flatbed scanner.
She said that police suspected the two offenders were in a white Ford Transit flatbed.
A small flatbed passed me, going 80-85, carrying four porta potties.
Asmech Systems loaned their flatbed vehicle to Santa for three weeks so that the sleigh could get around many Mansfield streets.
Hall immediately pledged to use his flatbed to move the trunk without having to cut it up.
The restoration of a 1934 Guy Wolf Flatbed truck has led to a Somerset man being announced as a winner of a Restoration Award at the National Transport Trust’s (NTT) annual awards.
The RPU then added that the flatbed vehicle dropping pea shingle onto the M5 was 1.5 tonnes overweight.
The successful candidate must have experience using an industrial sewing machine and be xperienced in using a flatbed machine and over locker and a twin needle machine.
A flatbed truck is capable of handling any sort of vehicle.
A huge crane parked along the sidewalk on Broad Street then yanked Columbus off his pedestal and deposited the statue onto a waiting flatbed trailer.
Deputies say the flatbed semi was hauling crushed cars headed for the scrapyard when it was involved in the mishap, and the cars spilled onto the road.
He spoke while taking a rest from salvaging what he could from the home, including metal roof panels, and piling it onto an aged flatbed truck.
Rollins crashed the stolen flatbed truck he was driving and was running when the deputy shot at him.
The group attempted to evade detection by swapping between flatbed vans midway through their journey and stopping and starting at various points.
The logging truck's crane was used to load up the logs back onto the flatbed.
A photo posted by a local newspaper showed bodies being loaded onto a flatbed truck.
Douglass would find itself riding on a flatbed car into Carson City to be overhauled.
During the work week of Dec. 2-6, someone videotaped a Gilbert flatbed truck with sideboards loading or unloading somewhere on my property and filed a complaint against me.
Common combinations with flatbed
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- flatbed truck 10×
- the flatbed 7×
- on flatbed 4×
- and flatbed 3×
- flatbed trailer 3×
- small flatbed 2×
- flatbed vehicle 2×
- of flatbed 2×
- flatbed trucks 2×
- flatbed to 2×