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

It would be humiliating to the whole charabanc confraternity if they were to yield their pre-eminence in this branch of education to a small rural community.

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