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
  • This is a motorcar with a very long bonnet, very long tail and a very short cabin.
    — Morgan Korn, ABC News, 8 May 2026
  • From the dawn of the motorcar to today, the microcar has fought on.
    — Alex Goy, Ars Technica, 27 May 2024
  • Or the four motorcars that reached the intersection about the same time?
    — Paul Dorpat, The Seattle Times, 13 June 2017
  • As time wears on, more and more motorcars turn up, until horses are a rarity.
    — David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • When motorcars were new, gasoline worked more like a service than a product, let alone a commodity.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Fast-forward to the flappers of the 1920s, driving hell for leather in flashy motorcars.
    — Town & Country, 3 Mar. 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
  • 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
  • Soon, a racing motorcar with four men inside drew Bayer’s attention.
    — Scott Harrison, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Confusing matters even more, the route was called Hubbard’s Trace in the era before motorcars.
    — Paul Eisenberg, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • There were docks and canoes and sailboats, a (worrying) clay tennis court, bicycles, motorboats, motorcars, and games.
    — Town & Country, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Like Ford’s motorcars, the LBD has had many iconic incarnations since.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Instead of motorcars and overindulged house pets, there are free-roaming donkeys that can be hopped on and off for local transport like rideshare bicycles, and lumbering, ancient turtles.
    — Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • The seller, an exotic motorcar firm, will throw in a 1967 Ford Mustang as part of the transaction.
    — Dallas News, 29 June 2022
  • 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
  • Thus, a car-carrying tender presented an elegant solution that fit well with the superyacht owner who wishes to simplify the process of bringing his favorite motorcar on board.
    — Kathleen Turner, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
  • But having said that, the basic ethos of the level of engineering and overall focus on the driving elements of the motorcar and the ownership element of the motorcar has not changed in 30 years.
    — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Cotten gives a gloriously moving and humane performance as the motorcar manufacturer seen by George as an unwanted interloper.
    — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 22 Jan. 2025
  • In the 1920s, Rolls-Royce was producing experimental motorcars.
    — Morgan Korn, ABC News, 8 May 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Lucky for people living in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, there are plenty of free things to do with fathers this upcoming weekend from free swimming to a classic motorcar gathering and surprising activities in between.
    — Carly Sauvageau, USA Today, 18 June 2026

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