motorcar

Example Sentences

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“I shouted ‘Motorcar, motorcar, motorcar,’ which was about the only English I remembered from high school, hoping that someone would bring an automobile to drive me to headquarters.”

From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2023

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

In post-war Britain, more disposable income, rising standards of living, and the suburban housing boom solidified the pram’s place in society: just as father needed his motorcar, mother needed her pram.

From The Guardian • Mar. 20, 2018

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

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