motorcar
Example Sentences
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The firehouse has a proud history, including in 1929 buying the town's first motorcar: a flame-red Model A.
From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2020
In post-war Britain, more disposable income, rising standards of living, and the suburban housing boom solidified the pram’s place in society: just as father needed his motorcar, mother needed her pram.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 20, 2018
But as the steam engine gave way to the motorcar in the 1920s, the building found another new life: Thomas J. Crowell’s fuel and auto body shop.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 25, 2017
One of the Commodore’s men steps from the motorcar, still hatless, and asks where his could be.
From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2014
He informed me that his older brother, my first and oldest son, Madiba Thembekile, whom we called Thembi, had been killed in a motorcar accident in the Transkei.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
