streetcar

Example Sentences

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When the next streetcar rolls in, the upper deck fills with a gaggle of schoolgirls, squabbling over who gets the window seat closest to the sea breeze.

From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026

Engineering student Mahmoud Bassam, 24, has visited Alexandria just to ride the streetcar "since our tram in Cairo was removed", he told AFP.

From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026

With the advent of the electric streetcar, many trolley companies built parks as destinations for their new modes of transport.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

An-My, you chose Robert Frank’s picture of a streetcar in New Orleans, taken that year.

From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2024

In the early decades of the twentieth century, the streetcar traveled up and down the Black Belt throughout the day, picking up passengers along the way, setting them down again at their destinations.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield