How to Use dune buggy in a Sentence

dune buggy

noun
  • Kendall and Arie spend the day on dune buggies in the desert.
    Aurelie Corinthios, PEOPLE.com, 26 Feb. 2018
  • The Shriners’ clowns and dune buggies will also be at the giveaway event.
    Jessica Anderson, baltimoresun.com, 17 Aug. 2019
  • Soon after, Corigliano and a group of friends looked for a dune buggy to race into the desert.
    Lujain Jo and Suman Naishadham, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The opening scene shows the three hosts flipping over a dune buggy.
    Rodney Ho, ajc, 20 Jan. 2022
  • The owner of Peninsula Comics pulled up in a dune buggy, walked through the cluttered store and opened up the world.
    Peter Hartlaub, SFChronicle.com, 15 Dec. 2020
  • Clayton took Gabby to explore the beach in a dune buggy.
    Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 8 Mar. 2022
  • And funnily enough, VW’s rush to the future has put me a bit back in time, and into a dune buggy.
    Eric Adams, WIRED, 17 Aug. 2019
  • Tour through the desert in a 4x4, or go extreme off-roading in a dune buggy or on a quad bike with Expert Rangers.
    Latifah Al-Hazza, Travel + Leisure, 25 July 2023
  • One guy drove a dune buggy up the Rocky steps in celebration.
    Jessica Roy, The Cut, 2 Feb. 2018
  • But rather than looking a bit like a dune buggy with a small projector on top, it’s built to look a lot like a snake.
    Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 5 May 2023
  • Katie just turned her own world upside-down while trying to make a cool entrance in a dune buggy.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 22 June 2021
  • Also burned in the fire were a Harley-Davidson motorcycle and a Sand Rail dune buggy parked in the garage.
    Julie Gallant, Ramona Sentinel, 15 May 2018
  • While Sara Sampaio scooted around on a dune buggy in a camo bikini.
    Sarah Lindig, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Sep. 2016
  • People who’d rather not get sand in their shoes can take a 40-minute tour aboard open, elongated dune buggies (saugatuckduneride.com).
    Susan Hack, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Like an evolved dune buggy, it is known as a side-by-side for the way its occupants sit beside each other.
    David Jeans, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Dragonfly weighs nearly a thousand pounds, and is roughly the size of a dune buggy.
    Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2019
  • Say it with us, loud enough for Volkswagen to hear: Electric dune buggies need to happen.
    Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 16 Apr. 2019
  • Older racers can fly, while younger kids can truck along on a kiddie track and a kiddie dune buggy track.
    Kit Waskom Pollard, baltimoresun.com, 8 May 2018
  • The families had a zipline in the backyard and would ride dirt bikes and dune buggies as well as go hiking with the family dog.
    Nate Owen, courant.com, 18 Aug. 2017
  • One of them, dubbed the Reboot Buggy, resembles a stretch version of the classic big-tired dune buggy.
    Adam Tschorn, latimes.com, 11 July 2019
  • His daughter Deborah died in 1982 after striking her head on the roll cage of a dune buggy while riding by a lake.
    Nathan Brown and Chris Deharde, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Dec. 2021
  • There's now a K1, which is a stationary bot, and a K7, which is essentially a robotic dune buggy.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 20 Sep. 2017
  • The ones that would be permitted include dune buggies, four-wheeled carts with beds, and other vehicles with roll bars.
    Ricardo Delgado, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Next, Kris Jenner arrives in some sort of futuristic dune buggy with son-in-law Kanye.
    Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Nov. 2019
  • The rest of us – my mom, my brother, sister and spouses – gathered on the west coast of Michigan for a long weekend of food, fun, debate and dune buggy riding.
    Susan Glaser, cleveland, 8 Oct. 2020
  • He and Ryan ferret out parts the way small-town boys build dune buggies, using whatever is lying around—an old bed frame, a bench seat, a small-block engine.
    Genesee Keevil, Popular Mechanics, 17 May 2018
  • Flying across the sand like a four-wheeled rocket, the first fiberglass dune buggy was sleek, stylish and a little whimsical, a small car with big wheels and a tangerine-red paint job.
    Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Suddenly, a smaller vehicle — a 1960s Meyers Manx original dune buggy— zips through the sliver of open road and stops in front of the Warhol car.
    Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The idea is to that, like the old Beetles enthusiasts turned into dune buggies, today’s electrics can become just about anything.
    Eric Adams, WIRED, 17 Aug. 2019
  • New Braunfels residents may be able to take to the streets with their dune buggies should the road to approving city staff recommendations be smooth.
    Ricardo Delgado, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Feb. 2023

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