pillion

Example Sentences

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Motorbike pillion passenger Liam Scott, 21, suffered a fatal head injury.

From BBC • Jul. 14, 2023

As the convoy left the hospital it was chased by two motorcycle film crews, with one cameraman standing on the pillion seat.

From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2017

A somewhat less comfortable pillion seat is hidden beneath the rear cowl, with slender fold-down passenger pegs available along with an integrated grab bar.

From Forbes • Jul. 1, 2015

In Monrovia, she switched to a motorcycle, riding pillion with a young man who agreed to take her to the plantation and whom health authorities were subsequently desperate to trace.

From Reuters • Jul. 31, 2014

There was a black silhouette picture of Great-great-aunt Martha riding on a pillion; and another of Grandfather and Grandmother Charrington, with a family of six little Charringtons, clad in décolleté dresses, spencers, and pantaloons.

From The Daughters of a Genius by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.