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

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

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

From The Guardian • Jul. 4, 2014

If folks saw her perched high and mighty beside him in the back seat of a shiny motorcar, they’d call her snooty, or grave-snatcher.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns