auto court
Example Sentences
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The auto court, which opened in 1937, fell into disrepair when motorists started to abandon the Mother Road for the national highway system.
From Washington Post • Dec. 11, 2019
Early in "Travels" Steinbeck bunks at an auto court in Maine and rages against the sterility of it.
From Salon • Jul. 6, 2018
The houses are built in clusters of four sharing a single driveway and auto court and are designed to be inconspicuous: all exterior walls must mimic the brown and ocher tones of desert soil.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then, three days later, back at Blythe, Calif.�1,600 miles from Tulsa�a deputy named Homer Waldrip strolled into an auto court to question a man who had been one of Cook's friends.
From Time Magazine Archive
That night I spent in a pretty auto court near Livingston.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
