motorcar

Example Sentences

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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

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

From The Guardian • Dec. 12, 2020

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

It is a well-known story: A quirky tinkerer rolls a rusted old car into his workshop, casts around for some parts, and emerges — honk, honk! — with a magical motorcar.

From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2016

Wu Tsing had allowed the new motorcar to be sent to the railway station, but of course that was not enough to carry them all back.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan