Example Sentences

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The monster apparently eluded them because for years spectators at the popular dragstrip reported sightings in the brush beyond the track.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2023

Otis had helped to save, for L.A.’s Black and Brown drag-racers, the dragstrip that Big Willie had helped to put together after the Watts riots and keep it together after the Rodney King one.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 21, 2022

Before you could count to five, the race on the 132-foot-long makeshift dragstrip was over.

From Washington Post • Jul. 1, 2021

Before its opening, Peterson claimed the dragstrip would be “the finest in the east.”

From Washington Times • Oct. 1, 2016

That kind of dragstrip macho has been virtually extinct since the end of the era of 300-per-gal. gasoline.

From Time Magazine Archive