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

Zelenskyy nixed the usual motorcar parade to walk among the throng that elected him, taking selfies with people along the way.

From Salon • Mar. 5, 2022

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

Marinetti's hot-headed poets and artists wrestled with the icon of the motorcar.

From The Guardian • Jul. 4, 2014

But we had our way of observing the day, and we stayed faithful to it even in the age of the motorcar.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck