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

So is the streetcar, and many of the other vehicles, as well as most of the buildings, signs, facades, lights and pedestrians.

From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2024

But in Pittsburgh she felt terribly little and worried, especially after one day when she got off the streetcar in the wrong place.

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen