How to Use motorbike in a Sentence

motorbike

noun
  • Around midnight, one man parked his motorbike and joined his wife in blankets on the line.
    Fox News, 16 June 2019
  • Moments later, a turquoise motorbike comes racing down a narrow dirt road.
    Jacopo Benini, National Geographic, 10 May 2019
  • At quitting time, factory workers heading home on foot and motorbikes clog the road.
    Alexandra Stevenson, The Seattle Times, 24 Sep. 2018
  • His mother was constantly fleeing from the paparazzi, who were on motorbikes.
    Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 18 Feb. 2019
  • Soon after, 15 attackers on motorbikes opened fire against the French forces.
    National Geographic, 13 June 2019
  • People park motorbikes in downtown Kigali during rush hour.
    Gabriele Steinhauser, WSJ, 6 Nov. 2018
  • The helicopters, the motorbikes, and anti-poaching teams are the foundation of the success of the reserve.
    Paul Steyn, National Geographic, 2 May 2019
  • There were American flags in almost every window, flying off motorbikes, cars.
    Vogue, 27 Dec. 2018
  • Electric buses, smaller 15-seat minibuses, cars and motorbikes are popping up on the streets of the capital.
    Ella Nilsen, CNN, 17 Aug. 2024
  • Just four days before their arrival, an hour’s drive south in Bankass, armed men slit the throat of a nearby village chief before carrying his lifeless body away on a motorbike.
    Anna Pujol-Mazzini, Time, 18 June 2019
  • Back in Afghanistan, their mother forbade her children to own motorbikes, so Masood borrowed a friend’s and went zipping around Kabul in a leather jacket.
    Matthew Wolfe, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
  • In late July, photographers captured her taking a sunny ride on the back of a motorbike and living it up off the coast of the beach while donning a black-and-white tiger-striped bikini on what looked like the video’s set.
    Njera Perkins, Peoplemag, 5 Aug. 2024
  • In that episode, the kid on the motorbike paid the price.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 May 2022
  • My friend was brave enough to get on a motorbike and drive it.
    Tariro Mzezewa, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2020
  • The front wheel of my motorbike went into a ditch and, boom!
    NBC News, 19 Aug. 2019
  • My friend Cameron took me home on her motorbike, all the way down to the East Village.
    Zachary Weiss, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The teenager walked a quarter mile and hopped on a motorbike to find it.
    Washington Post, 6 May 2022
  • The star has been an avid motorbike rider since a young age.
    Jacob Linden, Redbook, 10 May 2023
  • The clip opens with Bieber racing through the streets on a motorbike, with police on his tail.
    Heran Mamo, Billboard, 5 Mar. 2021
  • The fire also burned seven cars and more than a dozen motorbikes parked on the ground floor of the building.
    Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Last month a man pointed a gun at my head and stole my motorbike.
    Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2021
  • The idea of the cover was a motorbike flying over the journalists in a bar.
    Ralph Steadman, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2021
  • In one of the videos, the singer and her daughter ride side-by-side on their motorbikes as Hart films from behind.
    Claudia Harmata, PEOPLE.com, 12 Jan. 2020
  • The concrete track that leads to his house is only wide enough for a motorbike.
    Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2020
  • These two gangs control most of the motorbike and taxi ranks in the capital.
    Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 11 Mar. 2023
  • As the villain is about to kill Moser with a motorbike, Rex launches out of a bush and tackles him.
    Naaman Zhou, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
  • An employee of his racing team gave him a motorbike to ride to the team’s tent.
    Tom Fitzgerald, SFChronicle.com, 26 July 2019
  • In exchange, Red, owner of a motorbike and long locks that match his name, helps Chloe with her list.
    Karin Tanabe, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Back on land, rent a motorbike for a day or two of exploring the island.
    Marianna Cerini, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 July 2019
  • Your path may be blocked by a lipstick-red polyurethane foot the size of a motorbike or a resin bookcase in the shape of its creator’s face.
    Matthew Schneier, Curbed, 14 Sep. 2021

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