extra tire
Example Sentences
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“I got the extra tire put on and the guy was like ‘Where are you headed?,’
From Washington Times ● Aug. 1, 2015
But my patch kit and extra tire tubes are still in their boxes, and I needed few repairs.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2011
The extra tire was to be at Elkhart, farther on, and the problem was to make the old one hold until that point would be reached.
From Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England, New York, Canada, and the West, By "Chauffeur" by Arthur Jerome Eddy
Progress," said the professor—"progress in science and mechanics has accomplished it—though, to be exact, we may speak of it only as an extra tire.
From Strictly business: more stories of the four million by O. Henry
"And as you didn't carry an extra tire along, you just had to lay off and mend the same," chuckled Hugh.
From The Chums of Scranton High Hugh Morgan's Uphill Fight by Donald Ferguson
