How to Use streetcar in a Sentence

streetcar

noun

• Demise of Public Transit The end of the war marked the end of the line for streetcars.
  — Jay L. Zagorsky, WIRED, 24 Aug. 2024
• The lots are a one-stop ride on the streetcar or a 10-minute walk to the City Market.
  — Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 9 July 2024
• Gone are the days when the No. 19 streetcar clanged up and down Harford Road.
  — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 19 Aug. 2021
• The viaduct exists to this day and is part of a DART streetcar route.
  — Alyssa Fernandez, Dallas News, 15 Aug. 2020
• By the 1950s and the end of streetcar service, the terminal was used for busses.
  — The Enquirer, 29 Aug. 2022
• And there's even been talk about adding new streetcar routes.
  — The Enquirer, 18 Feb. 2024
• Heflin, during the confrontation, tossed the man off the streetcar and shot him in the leg.
  — John Sharp, al, 13 Jan. 2021
• Some of the streets still have cobblestone and the remains of streetcar tracks.
  — Noreen Malone, New York Times, 1 June 2023
• Here, for decades, the streets went unpaved, and the streetcars and buses didn’t run.
  — Robert Wilonsky, Dallas News, 24 Jan. 2020
• Due to Sunday's races running through the course of the streetcar, the Q-Line will not travel the full length of the tracks.
  — Alanna Williams, Detroit Free Press, 15 Oct. 2021
• The city had considered adding a new trail or streetcar route atop the piers.
  — Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2022
• The man with a knife did not steal any money from the streetcar or the driver, NOPD said.
  — Carlie Wells, NOLA.com, 5 Oct. 2020
• Soon there was a deep hole and even the old Park Avenue streetcar tracks popped out.
  — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 13 July 2019
• Once out of town, the streetcar entered a tunnel of green.
  — Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2021
• The Past Decades ago, L.A. car commuters shared space with streetcars.
  — Curbed, 29 Nov. 2023
• There are bike lanes, too, and the Muni’s J-Church streetcar line runs right down the middle.
  — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Sep. 2021
• The first streetcar was only 2 years old, as was the town’s first artesian well.
  — Matt Leclercq, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Apr. 2024
• The surrealists used to choose a Paris streetcar at random, ride to the end of the line and then walk around.
  — Alison Gopnik, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2022
• The city plans to create 35 kiosks total, many at streetcar stops.
  — Margaret Cahill, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2021
• The travel time might be even faster if there was a streetcar near the arena, but, alas, that was not meant to be.
  — Daniel Bice, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2019
• Traffic, horns, people rushing around us, the clunk of tires over the streetcar tracks.
  — USA Today, 26 June 2023
• Who killed the Red Cars, once the grandest electric streetcar system in the nation?
  — Patt Morrison Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2021
• Themed drinks, photo booth, food trucks and ride streetcar to show.
  — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 25 June 2023
• Bob and Ed met at a San Francisco streetcar stop in 1970.
  — Daniel Felsenthal, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2024
• Tours are by bus or streetcar or on foot and range from $30 to $70 per person, plus taxes and fees.
  — Elaine Rewolinski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Aug. 2021
• Buses will stop at the transit concourse right next to The Hop streetcar L-Line.
  — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 9 May 2024
• In 1948, the streetcar rails were removed and the upper deck was widened to two lanes in each direction.
  — Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 27 June 2024
• The city rolled past: Muni buses, the funky old streetcars, tourists with cameras.
  — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Apr. 2023
• Mesa Mayor John Giles echoed the idea that the streetcar expansion is crucial to the economic development of the state's third largest city.
  — Sam Kmack, The Arizona Republic, 25 June 2024
• These powerful forces had no incentive to maintain or improve the old electric streetcar system.
  — Jay L. Zagorsky, WIRED, 24 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024