What is "four-by-four"

Usage examples of "four-by-four".

But as they began to make their way toward the trail, a Toyota four-by-four vehicle painted with the distinctive green of the Amn Al-Khass Interior Police-with five armed and uniformed men inside-raced past them and rounded the corner just behind them.

In one corner, next to an ancient, stained laundry tub, was a heavy workbench made from a particleboard door set up on four-by-four legs.

A stringy, narrow-eyed character named Boog Newton who was doing three months for repeatedly drinking himself into a stupor and climbing behind the wheel of his four-by-four.

The company car pulled up to his four-by-four and stopped, and then Hollister was surprised.

Then Marie and I made a sledge out of a one-inch sheet of plywood by hammering two four-by-fours lengthwise along its edges, then screwing two heavy eye bolts near the end of each four-by-four.

We installed four-by-fours as roof joists and started covering them with one-inch sheets of plywood.

We had to release the trailer, then the gate propped up by the four-by-fours, then work our way inch by inch until the gate leaned against the timbers from the trailer at a forty-five-degree angle.

The snow had been cut up by the sheriff’s four-by-fours and the crime scene people, but now snow was drifting into the holes they’d made.

I do see two four-by-fours parked in the middle of the street, like, but nobody around 'em.

We still can see those four-by-fours sitting in the street, but no armored vehicles.

At the end of this road the concrete stopped abruptly and we slid down a dirt slope to a dirt terrace, then down another slope, and a barricade of what looked like four-by-fours painted white loomed across the dirt road.

Then the weight of the four-by-fours pulled my muscles and my brain said let go and I put the section down again.

One of the four-by-fours took on a big articulated loadcarrier just ahead.

The roads around the station were packed with four-by-fours and pickup trucks that were stuffed full of kids and uninjured adults.

A long line of pickup trucks, four-by-fours, and buses were turning off the Highmarsh road just before the main junction, taking an even smaller track that threaded along the line of tall dark jade liipoplars that marked the edge of the Calsor homestead.