charabanc

Example Sentences

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But let’s not punish Johnson for the mute words of a charabanc.

From The Guardian • May 13, 2016

Phil Mickelson sports the sort of thick black gauntlets that Toad of Toad Hall would pull on for a spin in his charabanc.

From BBC • Sep. 26, 2014

This second charabanc jumps around just as much as his first, taking in reggae, a piano ballad, soft rock and vocoder funk.

From The Guardian • Dec. 9, 2012

Namely the same old primal activities that people have experienced forever without kidding themselves that, if the whole charabanc were to come to a halt tomorrow, they wouldn't be a little disappointed.

From The Guardian • Nov. 24, 2012

But these futile ebullitions of malice are powerless to check the triumphal progress of the charabanc in the Eastern Counties.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 11, 1920 by Seaman, Owen, Sir