How to Use lowrider in a Sentence

lowrider

noun
  • The red lowrider that had been a few cars ahead of me swerved in and out of its lane.
    Harper's Magazine, 20 July 2021
  • In the pantheon of lowrider culture, the Gypsy Rose stands at the top.
    latimes.com, 10 July 2017
  • Every car club has their own standards for a lowrider to be able to join.
    Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2022
  • So, about a half-dozen lowriders returned to City Hall Tuesday for that vote.
    Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Apr. 2023
  • After coming out of the era of the in-crowd with nice metal flake cars and hot rodders, the lowriders [arrived].
    Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 14 Dec. 2023
  • To be sure, even the little lowriders recognize it as such.
    Natalie Arroyo Camacho, refinery29.com, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Tuesday, From the Archives ran a picture of lowrider cars and few guys standing next to them.
    Adrian Vore, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2023
  • In the campaign video, Snoop Dogg can be seen pulling up to a home in a lowrider covered in holiday green plaid.
    Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Plaques are like putting your family name on a lowrider.
    Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Now his cars compete — and win — in regional car shows that once looked down on lowriders.
    David Gonzalez David Dee Delgado, New York Times, 19 May 2024
  • Humilde couldn’t help but appear in the video , gleefully manning the wheel of a teal lowrider.
    Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2021
  • There’ll be Tejano music, mariachi bands, dancers, a lowrider car show and bounce houses for the kids.
    Norma Cavazos, Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2023
  • But to show off their cars, known as lowriders, some were technically breaking the law.
    Livia Albeck-Ripka, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Live music, lowriders and ’90s-style mall glamour shots are all on tap, so come correct.
    Kamren Curiel, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Molina is one of dozens of car lovers drawn to a monthly cruise night of lowrider and custom vehicles.
    Star Tribune, 18 June 2021
  • The result makes the car appear as a hybrid lowrider-hot rod, something Sandoval says the artist was going for.
    John Rogers, The Seattle Times, 4 July 2017
  • The lowrider culture that arose in Southern California blossomed on the West Coast in the 1970s and soon spread beyond.
    John MacCormack, ExpressNews.com, 29 Sep. 2019
  • Mario Ayala painted his entire body a highlighter pink, in the style of the classic lowrider Gypsy Rose.
    Estevan Oriol, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The benefit cruise is open to all makes and models of cars, lowriders, rods and motorcycles.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2019
  • There weren’t that many people that owned lowriders and that were photographers.
    Andrea Alonso, Los Angeles Magazine, 27 Mar. 2018
  • The idea is to mirror a lowrider’s glossy finish, said lead muralist Victor Ochoa.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2022
  • The fat suit character then cruises in a blue lowrider before he cat-calls Latinas and dances in front of his car as tortilla chips fly.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 18 July 2022
  • Instead, Silva fell in love with the City of Angels, and his community of lowriders.
    CBS News, 6 May 2018
  • The lowrider has a color-shifting emerald green body over a green leather interior with loads of gold trim.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 5 June 2023
  • Aside from Jaguar's unconventional means of letting the great outdoors in, time has stood still for this lowrider.
    Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The reference was from this car called Gypsy Rose, an iconic lowrider that has really bright pink base cuffs.
    Mario Ayala, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2022
  • One custom that took a prime spot right out in front of the Museum was a killer green 1952 Chevy lowrider with suicide doors, wide white wall tires and custom pinstriping and paint.
    Heidi Van Horne, Houston Chronicle, 26 May 2018
  • The lowriders on display by the Lifestyle Car Club showed off incredible artistry with top-notch custom paint work on all of the cars in their section, and the club took home an award at the show because of it.
    Heidi Van Horne, Houston Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Ruiz brought his Hasselblad and a couple of other cameras to photograph kids with their lowrider bikes.
    Geraldo Cadava, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2024
  • This time, the collection goes beyond just the cars, looking at the cultural branches that grew out of lowrider cars including merchandise, music and fashion.
    Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2024

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