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
One of the Commodore’s men steps from the motorcar, still hatless, and asks where his could be.
From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2014
His friend who owns the motorcar set off at top speed, full out and going like the clappers, no lights as usual except the waning gibbous moon on the rise.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
