covered wagon
Example Sentences
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Perhaps I was the chosen one who would carry these tales into a new generation, passing down stories of America’s wine-sloshed aunts like I was spinning a yarn in the back of a covered wagon.
From Salon • Jan. 10, 2025
I doubted Dryden would last very long in a covered wagon out on the prairie.
From BBC • Sep. 19, 2024
The area near Donner Pass, a famously bad place to get stuck in the snow in a covered wagon, had its snowiest March since 1952.
From Slate • Apr. 3, 2023
Born in New York, Jacobs was raised in Michigan, where he studied law before crossing the country by ox-drawn covered wagon to Oregon Territory.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 17, 2022
We knew the big blue-painted covered wagon was something to stare at, and five boys off for the mountains were something to envy.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
