How to Use horseless carriage in a Sentence

horseless carriage

noun

• At the time, nobody worried that this new horseless carriage would dump carbon into the air.
  — Nathanael Johnson, WIRED, 9 July 2018
• In the early days of the horseless carriage, hundreds of outfits vied to establish themselves.
  — Rick Tetzeli, Fortune, 23 May 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Think of transportation: from horseback to horseless carriages to autonomous vehicles.
  — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 7 June 2018
• 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
• 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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