How to Use motor scooter in a Sentence

motor scooter

noun

• More than anything else, the travel time, from the kitchen to the bag, to the motor scooter or bicycle and to your house needs to be considered.
  — Willie Brown, SFChronicle.com, 11 July 2020
• Larry recalled how his father told him about riding a motor scooter around the hallways of the stadium to check the duct work.
  — Emily Davies, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2022
• The world’s fightingest motor scooter sported a beefed-up frame and lower gear ratios than the standard models.
  — Cory Graff, Popular Mechanics, 30 Nov. 2020
• Shares in Piaggio, makers of Vespa motor scooter, are up more than 50% in the last year as the company comes out of the pandemic with sales revving up.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 6 July 2021
• The baron glanced up from his newspaper and saw a man on a motor scooter zigzagging precariously in front of the Peugeot.
  — Tom Sancton, Town & Country, 31 Mar. 2022
• Police say Banes was crossing an avenue when 26-year-old Brian Boyd ran a red light on a motor scooter, knocking her over.
  — CBS News, 6 Aug. 2021
• Even as Tesla is killing the glamour of the supercar, Piaggio strives to make a wine mule as alla moda as a motor scooter.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2018
• Vespa Club of America welcomes all motor scooter fans to join in a week of rides and activities June 19-23.
  — Elaine Rewolinski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 June 2019
• To avoid unsightliness, trash bins are stashed behind each house and picked up by garbage collectors on motor scooters.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2017
• One time in high school he was caught speeding on his motor scooter by a police officer who also was a Ma-Ya regular.
  — Takashi Mochizuki, WSJ, 12 Apr. 2018
• The owner of a Honda motor scooter allowed a male juvenile sit on his vehicle while the engine was running.
  — Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2020
• By venting propellant gases out the rear, the 75mm had almost no recoil and no need for a weighty breech block, which meant it could be carried by a soldier—or, in this case, even an Italian motor scooter.
  — Cory Graff, Popular Mechanics, 30 Nov. 2020
• With a step-through design like a motor scooter, its appeal in America was mostly to college students and others looking for fun.
  — David Pan, USA TODAY, 8 June 2018
• The law provides that operators of vehicles must not pass any closer than 3 feet to a bicycle or motor scooter.
  — Mary Grace Keller, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 26 Aug. 2019
• The preferred method of transport is motor scooter or motorcycle.
  — NBC News, 18 May 2018
• Driving in Paris on a motor scooter, weaving through traffic, Maureen mumbles to herself, trapped in recursive thoughts about someone who is no longer there.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2021
• Classic cars and trucks, motor scooters and antique motorcycles will be on display.
  — Carol Kovach, cleveland.com, 30 July 2019
• Electric motor scooters are already being purchased by hundreds of thousands of consumers in Asia.
  — Shashank Sripad, Quartz India, 28 Oct. 2019
• Editor’s picks Enter Father Amorth, tootling around Europe on a motor scooter, guzzling whiskey from a flask, and perhaps having more fun than an exorcist should be allowed.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 15 Apr. 2023
• The man was previously convicted of residential burglary after breaking into a garage in the 500 block of Stanhope Court and stealing a motor scooter, court records show.
  — Bill Bird, Naperville Sun, 9 Sep. 2017
• Undeterred, one motor scooter rider took to the roads of eastern Germany, but was stopped after officers spotted him wearing nothing aside from a helmet.
  — Author: Brady Dennis, Andrew Freedman, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Aug. 2019
• Electric motor scooters are already being purchased by hundreds of thousands of consumers in Asia – there’s even an electric version of the iconic Indian scooter called the Bajaj Chetak.
  — Shashank Sripad, The Conversation, 28 Oct. 2019
• The officers were killed Friday afternoon when a man suspected of stealing a motor scooter grabbed a service pistol and shot the officers at close range inside the Trieste police station.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Oct. 2019
• However, over the past few decades, more modern jamu gendongs, like Mulatsih, have shifted to motor scooters to maximize mobility and range of distance.
  — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2023
• Police on Friday arrested a motorcyclist on reckless driving and other charges after a 2019 fatal crash with a motor scooter.
  — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 30 Oct. 2020
• But urban mobility is changing, even for motor scooters.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2018
• Luckily its engine, which sounds like a motor scooter, usually provides warning.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 17 May 2022
• In the final analysis, motor scooters — especially the electric variety and in particular, the BMW C evolution — make good sense, are fun to ride, and serve as sustainable transportation.
  — Arv Voss, Houston Chronicle, 7 Sep. 2019
• Two robbers on a motor scooter snatched a woman’s purse Saturday afternoon at a prominent intersection on Capitol Hill.
  — Washington Post, 28 July 2019
• The German automaker’s road to an electric motorcycle really started with the release of the fairly practical C Evolution electric motor scooter in 2014.
  — Sean O'Kane, The Verge, 26 June 2019

Last Updated: 16 Aug 2024