motorcar

Example Sentences

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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

Along with the explosion of the motorcar in the early 20th century came paved surfaces.

From The Guardian • Sep. 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

So in this clumsy way, my mother found out that Wu Tsing had taken his fourth concubine, who was actually just an afterthought, a foolish bit of decoration for his new motorcar.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan