parallel parking

Example Sentences

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It was seen coming around the bend in Canute Road, Southampton, on Saturday morning before arriving - and parallel parking - at the aviation museum.

From BBC • Nov. 25, 2023

Introduced in 2015, the system included such advanced features as allowing drivers to change lanes by tapping a turn signal and parallel parking on command.

From Reuters • Apr. 6, 2023

Like the album, her set opened with “Saoko,” a song whose sputtery jazz intro quickly gave way to a pendulous bass line that sounded like a spaceship parallel parking on the roof.

From Washington Post • Sep. 27, 2022

“For me the metaphor is, Meg is parallel parking and thinks that there’s no more space,” says Ashworth.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2021

It takes us another ten minutes to find a spot that Nick can pull up into from behind, because he hates parallel parking.

From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli