covered wagon
Example Sentences
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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
The area near Donner Pass, a famously bad place to get stuck in the snow in a covered wagon, had its snowiest March since 1952.
From Slate • Apr. 3, 2023
Dad made sure the company he hired strung lights over the covered wagon that marked the entrance.
From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
