tram
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I can still picture the tram driver who patched together my grandmother’s clunker and the sign maker lettering Jesus’ words along the road.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Manchester City was a "catalyst" for infrastructure projects, including the expansion of the tram network, said Krishnan-Harihara.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
Nottingham Express Transit, which operates the tram network, also said it had turned off the overhead power lines in the area due to the fire.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Children and young people who live in Sheffield will get free bus and tram travel across South Yorkshire after a pilot scheme was voted through by councillors.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Dearest Elizabeth, I’ve been thinking about this from the moment I realized what he’d done, from the moment I ran for the tram.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
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I trammed over to the Vatican to see the Sistine Chapel this time and the Stanze and Loggie of Raphael.
From Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 by Mary Alsop King Waddington
We had tea in the town and trammed back.
From Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 by Anonymous
The valves of these turbines are all set during the shop test and the rods trammed with an 8-inch tram.
From Steam Turbines A Book of Instruction for the Adjustment and Operation of the Principal Types of this Class of Prime Movers by Hubert E. (Hubert Edwin) Collins
Z. and I half walked and half trammed into Rouen this morning.
From Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 by Anonymous
"You're not going to see it tramming through because there's no hardness in the wickets – other than frost," said the Nottinghamshire director of cricket Mick Newell.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 30, 2013
Finally the tramming once more,—and the light approached.
From The Cross-Cut by Courtney Ryley Cooper
"Proportional charges" are those which, like ore-breaking, stoping, supporting stopes, and tramming, are a direct coefficient of the ore extracted.
From Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration by Herbert Hoover
The tramming of ore by hand through such a distance would cost about double the amount to hoist it through a shaft and transport it mechanically to the dressing plant at surface.
From Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration by Herbert Hoover
On the floor were tons of the metal, ready for tramming.
From The Cross-Cut by Courtney Ryley Cooper
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