flat tire
Example Sentences
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It's not like you can drive your car down the road, get a flat tire, pull over, fix it and keep going.
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
We also help each other out if anything goes wrong—a flat tire or something.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 12, 2025
I can’t touch the clot in a patient’s coronary, or see their stroke in the same way I can see a flat tire.
From Salon • May 20, 2025
A man who stopped his car with a flat tire near San Rafael in 1936 ran across what he thought was a piece of scrap metal, about 5 by 8 inches, covered in curious writing.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2025
And this was an especially good flat tire, because there were seven kids in the car-pool station wagon, and four of them started to cry—not Sam, of course.
From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry
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