motorcar

Example Sentences

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“I shouted ‘Motorcar, motorcar, motorcar,’ which was about the only English I remembered from high school, hoping that someone would bring an automobile to drive me to headquarters.”

From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2023

The firehouse has a proud history, including in 1929 buying the town's first motorcar: a flame-red Model A.

From Salon • Dec. 27, 2020

The firehouse has a proud history, including in 1929 buying the town’s first motorcar: a flame-red Model A.

From The Guardian • Dec. 12, 2020

But as the steam engine gave way to the motorcar in the 1920s, the building found another new life: Thomas J. Crowell’s fuel and auto body shop.

From Washington Post • Dec. 25, 2017

The clouds passed off, though, and we had only one puncture, and everybody at Cudn Temp’s like to had a fit about the motorcar.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns