motorcar

Example Sentences

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“I shouted ‘Motorcar, motorcar, motorcar,’ which was about the only English I remembered from high school, hoping that someone would bring an automobile to drive me to headquarters.”

From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2023

Zelenskyy nixed the usual motorcar parade to walk among the throng that elected him, taking selfies with people along the way.

From Salon • Mar. 5, 2022

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

Along with the explosion of the motorcar in the early 20th century came paved surfaces.

From The Guardian • Sep. 25, 2017

If folks saw her perched high and mighty beside him in the back seat of a shiny motorcar, they’d call her snooty, or grave-snatcher.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns