tram
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From my perch I see thousands of revelers pour from the tram, cars that magically found a parking spot, bikes, and buses.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
As for the second question, if I were former Dodgers owner and aerial tram godfather Frank McCourt, I’d fasten my seat belt, because the gondola is about to hit some heavy turbulence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
He returns to his car and gets inside briefly, before emerging and running towards a black man who has stepped off a tram.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
The tram creaked past deserted factories that once produced mining equipment and porcelain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Ashoke’s mother was always convinced that her eldest son would be hit by a bus or a tram, his nose deep into War and Peace.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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The valves of these turbines are all set during the shop test and the rods trammed with an 8-inch tram.
From Steam Turbines A Book of Instruction for the Adjustment and Operation of the Principal Types of this Class of Prime Movers by Hubert E. (Hubert Edwin) Collins
Z. and I half walked and half trammed into Rouen this morning.
From Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 by Anonymous
I trammed over to the Vatican to see the Sistine Chapel this time and the Stanze and Loggie of Raphael.
From Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 by Mary Alsop King Waddington
We had tea in the town and trammed back.
From Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 by Anonymous
"You're not going to see it tramming through because there's no hardness in the wickets – other than frost," said the Nottinghamshire director of cricket Mick Newell.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 30, 2013
On mines where the volume of ore does not warrant mechanical haulage, the cost of tramming through the extra distance involved is an expense which outweighs any extra operating outlay in the inclined shaft itself.
From Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration by Herbert Hoover
"Proportional charges" are those which, like ore-breaking, stoping, supporting stopes, and tramming, are a direct coefficient of the ore extracted.
From Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration by Herbert Hoover
By shortening this distance of tramming and by consolidation of the material from all levels at the surface, where mechanical haulage can be installed, a second shaft is often justified.
From Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration by Herbert Hoover
Thus tramming and shaft work, as stated before, can be concentrated.
From Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration by Herbert Hoover
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