jalopy

Example Sentences

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But just because this old jalopy still runs doesn’t mean it’s worth taking for a spin.

From Salon • Jun. 30, 2025

But they’ll get there—in the same way a young car-shopper starts with a beat-up old jalopy, he argued, eventually they’ll walk onto the lot in middle age looking for a pricey new Cadillac.

From Slate • May 25, 2025

She tapped “home” into the control console of her autopod — a jalopy, by modern standards — and pushed “execute.”

From Seattle Times • Dec. 13, 2020

Here had at long, long last arrived the day when LSU, that jalopy long trammeled in primitive offense and thumping defeats, came to Alabama and stormed up and down the field like some attacking symphony.

From Washington Post • Nov. 9, 2019

That cold, early morning, Papa parked the Carcachita, our old jalopy, at one end of the cotton field.

From "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child" by Francisco Jiménez