How to Use motorcar in a Sentence
motorcar
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The new motorcars led to a jitney craze in cities across the country.
—Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Mar. 2018
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Fast-forward to the flappers of the 1920s, driving hell for leather in flashy motorcars.
—Town & Country, 3 Mar. 2023
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Or the four motorcars that reached the intersection about the same time?
—Paul Dorpat, The Seattle Times, 13 June 2017
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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
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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
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The seller, an exotic motorcar firm, will throw in a 1967 Ford Mustang as part of the transaction.
—Dallas News, 29 June 2022
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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
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As time wears on, more and more motorcars turn up, until horses are a rarity.
—David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Apr. 2018
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Confusing matters even more, the route was called Hubbard’s Trace in the era before motorcars.
—Paul Eisenberg, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Like Ford’s motorcars, the LBD has had many iconic incarnations since.
—Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 29 Sep. 2017
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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
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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
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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
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Soon, a racing motorcar with four men inside drew Bayer’s attention.
—Scott Harrison, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2019
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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
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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
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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
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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
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