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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