streetcar
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Repetitive imagery of freeways, streetcar tracks, even horses seem to torture the main characters for feeling stuck.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Engineering student Mahmoud Bassam, 24, has visited Alexandria just to ride the streetcar "since our tram in Cairo was removed", he told AFP.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
The commuters in “Le Métro” hark back to his early streetcar scenes but now there’s an air of mystery to the straphangers, with the central figure’s face obscured and bisected by a subway pole.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
So is the streetcar, and many of the other vehicles, as well as most of the buildings, signs, facades, lights and pedestrians.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2024
But Desdemona set out for the streetcar in one of her plain dresses, gray with brown polka dots.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
They relied on a bicycle and the city’s streetcars for transportation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
The area lost its last rail service in 1952 when the Pacific Electric streetcars stopped running.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
Now, Egyptians young and old have flocked for farewell rides, before the streetcars come to a halt in April.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
Scranton’s nickname, “Electric City,” stems from its being one of the first places in the U.S. to have electric streetcars.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2025
The street lamps were making the pavement glisten, and the light from the streetcars would glint off someone’s shiny hair, or off a smile or a silver bracelet.
From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus
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