covered wagon
Example Sentences
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On July 14, it shared a painting depicting a young 19th-century couple in a covered wagon, craning over an infant, the plains and mountains extending into the distance behind them.
From Slate • Aug. 14, 2025
Srinivasan, who is Indian American, said that although the covered wagon painting is not offensive in and of itself, the timing of the Homeland Security post raises questions about the government’s intended meaning.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 20, 2025
Perhaps I was the chosen one who would carry these tales into a new generation, passing down stories of America’s wine-sloshed aunts like I was spinning a yarn in the back of a covered wagon.
From Salon • Jan. 10, 2025
I doubted Dryden would last very long in a covered wagon out on the prairie.
From BBC • Sep. 19, 2024
Like a modern-day covered wagon, it rolls out of the waving grasslands and stops.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
