cable car
noun
: a vehicle moved by an endless cable:
a
: one suspended from an overhead cable
b
: one that moves along tracks
Examples of cable car in a Sentence
The skiers took a cable car to the top of the mountain.
Tourists packed the cable cars on the hilly streets of San Francisco.
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Visitors can soak in spectacular panoramas from its summit by cable car or by hiking trails such as Lion’s Head and Platteklip Gorge.
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Taryn White, Travel + Leisure, 8 Sep. 2025
For the best perspective on Tromsø’s island setting, ride the Fjellheisen cable car.
—David Nikel, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
That’s because the Giants have helped them out by resembling a cable car forever eking up one of San Francisco’s large hills.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2025
The endeavor was designed to challenge him physically and mentally in the name of longevity, and so Hemsworth went as far as climbing up a 100-foot rope that was dangling from a cable car in the middle of a thousand-foot canyon.
—Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025
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Taryn White, Travel + Leisure, 8 Sep. 2025
For the best perspective on Tromsø’s island setting, ride the Fjellheisen cable car.
—David Nikel, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
That’s because the Giants have helped them out by resembling a cable car forever eking up one of San Francisco’s large hills.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2025
The endeavor was designed to challenge him physically and mentally in the name of longevity, and so Hemsworth went as far as climbing up a 100-foot rope that was dangling from a cable car in the middle of a thousand-foot canyon.
—Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for cable car
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“Cable car.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cable%20car. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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