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

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 was, quite possibly, the first rearview mirror on a motorcar.

From New York Times • May 16, 2016

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

From The Guardian • Jul. 4, 2014

So behind the motorcar came a dozen or so rickshaws, bouncing up and down like crickets following a large shiny beetle.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan