How to Use horseless carriage in a Sentence
horseless carriage
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At the time, nobody worried that this new horseless carriage would dump carbon into the air.
—Nathanael Johnson, WIRED, 9 July 2018
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In the early days of the horseless carriage, hundreds of outfits vied to establish themselves.
—Rick Tetzeli, Fortune, 23 May 2018
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The firm failed to make the 20th-century transition to the horseless carriage but its memory lives on, not just in the name of the Abbot-Downing School but in the way that a coach is the city emblem.
—David Brooks, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2019
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However the Internet in a couple of decades has reduced them to the fleeting sepiatone image of the village blacksmith watching the horseless carriage put-putting by.
—Fred Dickey, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 Sep. 2017
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In the early 1890s there was much interest in the emerging technology of horseless carriages, which promised to combine the speed of a train with the flexibility of a horse and the convenience of a bicycle.
—The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
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AVs offer a chance to forge a new and better trade-off between personal mobility and social impact—but only if the lesson of the horseless carriage is applied to the era of the driverless car.
—The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
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Once upon a time, horseless carriages were a luxury item, crafted from the finest of materials to wrap an owner in wealth and ostentation.
—Jack Stewart, Wired News, 11 Mar. 2018
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Engineers and, later, thrill-seeking drivers of horseless carriages could read off the speed of moving objects using tachymetric scales.
—Nick Foulkes, A-LIST, 24 Dec. 2017
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And, eventually, these autonomous systems could replace humans at the steering wheel, just as horseless carriages replaced the horses.
—Vivek Wadhwa, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2018
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Still, the arguments filmmakers are making in favor of the movie-theater experience over the living-room experience are akin to those once made in favor of transportation by Palomino stallion rather than horseless carriage.
—Bill Carter For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 7 Feb. 2020
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Think of transportation: from horseback to horseless carriages to autonomous vehicles.
—Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 7 June 2018
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Later he was hired by the Edison Illuminating Co. in Detroit and started experimenting with horseless carriages.
—David Krumboltz, The Mercury News, 26 Aug. 2019
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Gabriela Tylesova’s gaudy big top scenic and costume design is impressive, particularly a horseless carriage, carousel horses and some spinning illuminated glass pyramids.
—Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 Mar. 2018
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