How to Use fender in a Sentence

fender

noun
  • The car's port is on the fender near the left taillight.
    Frank Fellone, Arkansas Online, 12 Nov. 2022
  • The charge port door is on the left front fender of the Lightning.
    Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes, 20 May 2021
  • Hinged at the front fender and the roof, the door opening is very wide.
    Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Is there still a flat spot on the fender to rest your beer?
    Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 27 Aug. 2022
  • The truck has fender flares and five-spoke chrome ribs.
    Samantha J. Gross, miamiherald, 25 June 2017
  • Part of the front fender/bumper was missing and one of the tires was a spare.
    Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The fender and rear bumper were damaged on the parked car.
    Kimberly Fornek, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2019
  • The plug-in has a locking charge port on the driver’s-side front fender, too.
    Car and Driver, 22 Feb. 2018
  • And there is hustle in the hatchback stance as the 18-inch wheels fill the fenders.
    (james Halfacre), San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2019
  • Plus, the smaller tires of the Classic are dwarfed by the car's rear fenders.
    Larry Webster, Car and Driver, 23 Aug. 2023
  • One popped up in Choctaw, Okla., its hood and fenders adorned with flames.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2019
  • To make a hat, Radcliffe taught me to cast on with the same knot the crew used to secure the fenders.
    Andrea Sachs, Philly.com, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The back end was lifted atop pallets of wood; the front fender was on the ground.
    Alex Demarban, Alaska Dispatch News, 22 Sep. 2017
  • There's one at the top of the windshield, one at the top of the rear window, and one above each front fender.
    Matt Jancer, Wired, 29 Mar. 2022
  • The charging port is in the right rear fender, opposite to the gas filler on the left.
    Jeff Yip, Houston Chronicle, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The left front fender of the car appears to have struck Davis and pinned his leg to the wall behind him.
    Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The scratch along the left side of the car caused damage to the left front fender and both left doors, police said.
    Elizabeth Owens-Schiele, chicagotribune.com, 23 Mar. 2018
  • On vehicles, the flag should be fixed to the front right fender.
    Rebekah Lowin, Country Living, 22 May 2019
  • On vehicles, the flag should be fixed to the front, right fender.
    Country Living Staff, Country Living, 25 May 2018
  • The only work on the body consists of sanding the fender edges and drilling a few holes.
    Car and Driver, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Sightlines are wide open across the front fenders and over the shoulder.
    Mark Maynard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 Feb. 2018
  • To easily check, measure from the ground to the top of the fender well on both a front and rear tire.
    Zoe Gutterman, Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
  • The scene reminded him of a black fender on a white car.
    Mercedes Lilienthal New York Times, Star Tribune, 28 May 2021
  • The second flap on the rear fender, which hides the SAE J1772 charging port, is an easy way to tell the two apart.
    Andrew Krok, Car and Driver, 6 Apr. 2023
  • And there are nine holes the top of each fender to help release pressure from the front wheel wells.
    Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 8 June 2021
  • The car had a roof rack, no front plate and a dent in the rear driver-side fender, no front or rear plate.
    Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Apr. 2018
  • That car struck the Nissan's fender and sent the trio crashing into the tree.
    Marie Simoneaux, NOLA.com, 22 Apr. 2018
  • In the photo, Mr. Smith is holding a guitar and has one foot on the fender of a Rolls-Royce.
    Jacob Bernstein, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Joe takes too long to drop a fender, but the docking is ultimately fine.
    Emma Soren, Vulture, 15 July 2024
  • Inspired by the Ducati Desmosedici, there is a box-style muffler cleverly integrated into the rear fender, and the headers have been hand-sand-bent.
    New Atlas, 27 Oct. 2024

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