How to Use race car in a Sentence

race car

noun
  • But the orange and white car wasn't like any other 911 race car.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Which gives a turtle an idea: to put on a helmet and act like a race car.
    Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Plus, shop Lego flowers, city skylines, and a race car on sale from $10.
    Phoebe Sklansky, Parents, 1 July 2024
  • These performance sport systems make the X7 handle like a race car, on the street and track.
    Tony Leopardo, The Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2024
  • The Australian race car driver says the idea behind the short film came through their partnerships with Beats.
    Nicole Fell, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 July 2024
  • That's exactly what happens to a race car when a drag chute—a small parachute that comes out of the back—is deployed.
    Rhett Allain, WIRED, 7 July 2023
  • That car served as the road-going counterpart to the automaker's Tipo 33 race car.
    Greg S. Fink, Car and Driver, 30 Aug. 2023
  • That’s a hard enough fight for the majority of people who climb into a race car.
    Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 26 Feb. 2024
  • In the short, Bad Bunny dines with Al Pacino, hangs out on a luxury yacht, and speeds around in a race car.
    Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The speedometer like face and race car paint job live in a case the looks like an old school stopwatch, red and green buttons included.
    Brad Lanphear, Men's Health, 27 July 2023
  • The win put him behind the wheel of a Nissan race car in real-world competitions.
    Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023
  • As stunning as the course may look, it’s almost outdone by its housing: The track is built within the body of a replica 917 race car.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Porsche’s first and only Formula 1 race car (pictured top) which claimed the marque’s sole F1 win in ‘62.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Dorothy Levitt Levitt is known as one of Britain's earliest race car drivers and a journalist.
    Amritpal Kaur Sandhu-Longoria, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Porsche and the Penske team had the job of being the first to integrate the hybrid components with their new race car, logging tens of thousands of miles in testing in the process.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 21 Nov. 2023
  • However, the emissions from these industries don’t just come from the fuel used in each race car or airplane.
    Jess Shanahan, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The cinematographer, Erik Messerschmidt, likes to mount a camera down low, next to the left wheel arch of a race car, or else behind the cockpit, staring ahead.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Earth orbits the sun farther out, so our view of Mercury is similar to that of someone watching a race car vrooming around a track.
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Ages 6+ For kids who are obsessed with cars and trucks, this set comes with a dozen eggs, each filled with one either a pull-back construction vehicle or race car.
    Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The actor took to Instagram on Thursday to post a picture of himself atop a gold race car outside of a Las Vegas hotel.
    Marianne Garvey, CNN, 21 July 2023
  • That wasn’t enough for race car driver Stefano Sebastiani.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Like those machines, this electric demonstrator also looks a little out of the ordinary for a race car.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 8 July 2024
  • These features used to be must-haves for race car drivers and engineers but aren’t any more thanks to advances in technology.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 14 Nov. 2023
  • But — to extend Napolitano’s race car analogy a little further — getting to this place that feels like a finish line in the decades-long saga over Bruce’s Beach has been one hell of a bumpy ride.
    Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Because its sole purpose is to run at high speed and full power, the opening and closing of the valves on a race car engine is optimized for those conditions.
    Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Feb. 2023
  • There’s an impressive shot that transitions from Jann in the gaming apparatus to the actual race car on the track.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The pedals are pressure-sensitive for ultra-realistic gameplay, and the wheel can even turn two and a half times — just like a real F1 race car.
    Rebecca Martinson, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Only some people accessorize them with a motorbike or a race car.
    Irene Kim, Vogue, 18 Nov. 2023
  • After landing a full-time seat in IndyCar, he was named rookie of the year at the Indy 500 in June, finally showing the world his talent in a single-seat race car.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 3 July 2024
  • Keeping the family connected allowed A.J. to focus on being one of the greatest race car drivers of all time.
    Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Apr. 2023

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