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motorcycle

[moh-ter-sahy-kuhl] / ˈmoʊ tərˌsaɪ kəl /


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They made pizza and played video games and rode Walters’ motorcycle, sparking a lifelong interest.

From Slate Sep. 17, 2026

Car and motorcycle title loans should remain the company’s main drivers, while improving used-truck demand should support a resumption of truck lending.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

The stadium’s size meant it could accommodate state track and field championships, college and pro football, motorcycle racing, roller derby and rugby.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 23, 2026

Among other things, he said the organisation was striving to better protect motorcycle taxi drivers who transport patients, and integrate them into the surveillance system.

From Barron's Aug. 18, 2026

I remember riding on the front of his motorcycle barreling down the dirt road to Ardestan.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

On Tuesday, new US tariffs came into effect on a number of Canadian goods while some others were lifted, and bans on goods like alcohol and motorcycles are due to come into force next week.

From BBC Sep. 15, 2026

Like Wehr, Kramer appeared to have a passion for cars and motorcycles.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 15, 2026

It was also carrying goods, an electric vehicle, a pickup truck and motorcycles.

From Barron's Sep. 11, 2026

But officials are most concerned about young riders on the electric bicycles and motorcycles outfitted with the most powerful motors that can sometimes outrun police vehicles.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2026

He had a sickening mental picture of a barn full of ponies, a roadster for Anne, motorcycles, a swimming pool, and, ultimately, the poor house or a debtors’ prison, if they still had such things.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

She has traveled and lived around the world, crisscrossed South America and Indonesia on her own, motorcycled through Europe and Turkey.

From New York Times May 28, 2019

He studied art at a Christian college and motorcycled through Europe in his early 20s to, he said, “sleep in fields and eat yogurt.”

From New York Times Mar. 31, 2017

In 1908 he motorcycled from John O'Groats to Land's End.

From BBC Jul. 8, 2016

The soldier motorcycled in to see the artist.

From Time Magazine Archive

At ten forty-five, the paraders were halted for some reason, and the General's runners motorcycled down along the line of march and told the bandmasters to keep on playing the liveliest of tunes.

From The Five Arrows by Allan Chase

While many Chinese cities have restricted motorcycling, Chongqing has embraced it and become a biker's paradise.

From Barron's Aug. 2, 2026

Last month, I mourned the passing of my motorcycling days as I prepped my 1973 Honda CB350F for sale.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 4, 2025

These include British couple Craig and Lindsay Foreman, who were detained in January while travelling through Iran on a motorcycling world tour and later charged with espionage.

From BBC Oct. 14, 2025

Tom Setterlund is a retired safety engineer who spends his time backcountry motorcycling, mostly on fire roads in the San Bernardino National Forest.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 5, 2024

It was unconventional at least for a girl to be motorcycling about the country dressed in man's clothes with a chauffeur.

From The Apartment Next Door by William Andrew Johnston




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