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
The firehouse has a proud history, including in 1929 buying the town’s first motorcar: a flame-red Model A.
From The Guardian • Dec. 12, 2020
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
It is a well-known story: A quirky tinkerer rolls a rusted old car into his workshop, casts around for some parts, and emerges — honk, honk! — with a magical motorcar.
From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2016
And then I saw the servants reaching into the backseat of the motorcar and a man was slowly being lifted by both arms.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
