motorcar

Example Sentences

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Her style, which she described as “clear painting,” looks backward to mannerism and forward to futurism and has a high-gloss sheen to it, like the chrome plating of a motorcar.

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2024

The firehouse has a proud history, including in 1929 buying the town's first motorcar: a flame-red Model A.

From Salon • Dec. 27, 2020

In post-war Britain, more disposable income, rising standards of living, and the suburban housing boom solidified the pram’s place in society: just as father needed his motorcar, mother needed her pram.

From The Guardian • Mar. 20, 2018

But as the steam engine gave way to the motorcar in the 1920s, the building found another new life: Thomas J. Crowell’s fuel and auto body shop.

From Washington Post • Dec. 25, 2017

I knew Miss Love would love to have a motorcar, probably more than my mother wanted to go to New York City.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns