buckboard

Example Sentences

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They’d flocked in autos, surreys, and buckboard wagons to bid their boys farewell.

From Slate • May 16, 2020

“All he had was a buckboard. With the buckboard, by the time he got to Great Bend, he would have had mush,” Rus said.

From Washington Times • Sep. 1, 2017

He toiled as a lawyer, traveling across the plains in a buckboard wagon, often working for the railroads, once having to sue for his fee because the company superintendent refused to pay it.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2017

The two men on the seat of the buckboard got down and stood either side of it.

From The Verge • Mar. 7, 2015

“Yes,” Grandpa said, as he climbed into the buckboard, “they’re smart, all right. But they’re not smart enough. I still believe there never was an animal that couldn’t be caught. We’ll see. We’ll see.”

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls