How to Use motorcar in a Sentence

motorcar

noun

• The new motorcars led to a jitney craze in cities across the country.
  — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Mar. 2018
• Fast-forward to the flappers of the 1920s, driving hell for leather in flashy motorcars.
  — Town & Country, 3 Mar. 2023
• Or the four motorcars that reached the intersection about the same time?
  — Paul Dorpat, The Seattle Times, 13 June 2017
• Motorcars placed third in the category last year, while Reminger law firm claimed the top spot a year ago.
  — Michelle Jarboe, cleveland.com, 18 June 2017
• Ray’s wears its history on its sleeve, in the corners, on the walls and out back in an antique Ford motorcar.
  — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 2 June 2022
• The seller, an exotic motorcar firm, will throw in a 1967 Ford Mustang as part of the transaction.
  — Dallas News, 29 June 2022
• That solitary motorcar parked at the corner of Dexter and Aloha (upper left) might well be Lee’s.
  — Paul Dorpat, The Seattle Times, 16 Aug. 2017
• As time wears on, more and more motorcars turn up, until horses are a rarity.
  — David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Apr. 2018
• Confusing matters even more, the route was called Hubbard’s Trace in the era before motorcars.
  — Paul Eisenberg, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2023
• The spell cast by speed and style ensured the motorcar’s success, and the birth of a new industry that defined world commerce going forward.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 4 Jan. 2023
• Settlements end up being designed with the motorcar in mind, so more and more of us are living more and more distant from each other.
  — Bill Hatcher, National Geographic, 28 Feb. 2016
• Settlements end up being designed with the motorcar in mind, so more and more of us are living more and more distant from each other.
  — Bill Hatcher, National Geographic, 28 Feb. 2016
• The grand prize wasn’t a gift basket with certificates for fine dining, a weekend getaway to Lake Geneva or even a brand new motorcar.
  — Jennifer Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 21 July 2019
• At the time of the crash, Elliott was towing a trailer that carried a vintage railroad motorcar — a vehicle about the size of a small car that can be driven on railroad tracks.
  — Sun-Sentinel.com, 5 June 2018
• Like Ford’s motorcars, the LBD has had many iconic incarnations since.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 29 Sep. 2017
• His proposal was for an electric interurban railroad that would transport people and goods, since the age of the motorcar hadn‘t quite arrived.
  — Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 5 May 2022
• The Classic’s ladder chassis and body-on-frame design is as old as the motorcar, and a good platform for this example’s significant upgrades.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 6 Sep. 2021
• For the most part, the luxury motorcars produced by the American auto companies disappeared, and with them hundreds of thousands of jobs.
  — WSJ, 17 June 2018
• Soon, a racing motorcar with four men inside drew Bayer’s attention.
  — Scott Harrison, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2019
• It has been designed and engineered to the same exacting standards as our T.50, with the same emphasis on driver focus, performance, lightweight and superlative, pure design, but the outcome is a very different motorcar.
  — Alistair Charlton, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
• The British company, which will forever be confused with a separate one that makes motorcars for billionaires (the automotive brand is owned by BMW ), has been on a tear after troublesome years of operational missteps and a major bribery scandal.
  — Alex Frangos, WSJ, 1 Aug. 2017
• In the auto industry, Honda, Nissan and Toyota decided to solve their problem by producing very expensive but high-quality motorcars, which hadn’t existed in their stable.
  — WSJ, 17 June 2018
• Creative destruction reallocates society’s resources from less productive pursuits to more productive ones—from spinning jennies to factories, for example, or from horse-and-buggies to motorcars.
  — Alan Greenspan, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024