How to Use racer in a Sentence

racer

noun
  • He is a stock car racer.
  • His horse will be a great racer.
  • The fat steering wheel feels good, and the short-throw shifter is racer-sharp.
    Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The e-bike still looks like a café racer; just one from the future.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The expert racers faced a gantlet of right turns on the tricky course.
    Hank Sanders, Chicago Tribune, 2 July 2023
  • The fans and other racers often scoffed, but ol' Duff was in on the joke.
    Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The goal was also to equal the lap times of a GT3-class racer on semi-slick tires.
    Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 23 Nov. 2022
  • As this Cobra is a racer, it’s been put through its paces over the years.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 6 May 2022
  • Fellow racer Joey Zuray was the first to pass the scene.
    Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 22 June 2022
  • But, as any good racer knows, the track isn’t always smooth and that climb seems to have stalled.
    Greg Engle, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
  • The pop star and the motocross racer have been married for nearly two decades and share two kids.
    Taiwo Balogun, Peoplemag, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The main pool, drop slides and mat racers will be available during the party.
    Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2023
  • One, the Malibu, is kitted out to look like an off-road racer.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 June 2022
  • In terms of his fit, though, the racer definitely came in first.
    Justin Ray, Robb Report, 7 July 2023
  • The format allows for racers to do much more than just race.
    Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 16 June 2023
  • The film follows Pitt as a former racer who wants back on the circuit.
    Marianne Garvey, CNN, 8 July 2024
  • That’s a problem because the most hard-core racers are tempted to speed up and take their chances.
    Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Inside, the racers took in the two-story course, amid the flashing lights and clangs of a jumbo arcade.
    Vera Carothers, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Wednesday found the racers in Tanacross for drag racing.
    Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 16 June 2023
  • Their narrow bodies and thready legs look like racers' shells and oars.
    Lynn Levin, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The racers each pay 3,150 Canadian dollars for entrance and come from all over the world.
    Max Ufberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2023
  • That’s nowhere close to America’s Cup racers, which can do 50 mph.
    William Booth, Washington Post, 24 July 2023
  • The former barrel racer now walks with a pronounced limp.
    Michael Robinson Chavez, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The final racer was Yoshiki Takahara, a 24-year-old from Japan.
    Nick Baumgartner and Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Each person in the group picks racers names out of a hat and puts them in their lanyard, alongside their ticket.
    Holly V. Hays, The Indianapolis Star, 30 May 2024
  • The following day, West spotted the president at the front of a group of racers in the same vicinity.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Elliott will be the playoff racer furthest back in the field, starting 23rd.
    Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 4 Sep. 2022
  • Foster cleared Gold to take the lead on Lap 47, a lead that the Exclusive Autosport racer would not relinquish for the rest of the 90-lap race.
    Christopher Deharde, The Indianapolis Star, 28 May 2022
  • Then, in 2019, the Little Car Company received a license from the marque to bring the petite racer back—as a ¾ scale vehicle with a more powerful electric motor.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 25 Sep. 2024
  • The game augments a virtual racer onto live footage captured from the cameras already on the vehicle, and using a controller, players seek to collect the most virtual coins that appear on the road.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 3 Oct. 2024

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