How to Use passenger car in a Sentence

passenger car

noun
  • Three people were in the passenger car that was fired at, troopers aid.
    — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 13 Dec. 2025
  • The driver of the passenger car crossed three lanes of traffic in an attempt to make their exit.
    — Jalen Williams, Detroit Free Press, 30 July 2024
  • From the front of the engine to the last passenger car, everything has been reimagined from the ground up.
    — Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 23 June 2025
  • The impact caused part of the third rail to impale the vehicle’s gas tank and shred the first passenger car of the train.
    — Brian Brant, PEOPLE, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Police say the crash involved a male pedestrian and a white colored passenger car.
    — Lillian Boyd, The Arizona Republic, 25 Feb. 2023
  • The passenger car was going the wrong way when the driver hit a box truck straight on, causing the passenger car to catch on fire.
    — Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Two people in the passenger car were also killed, DPS said.
    — Doug Myers, CBS News, 21 June 2026
  • The buffer storage unit was made from second-life passenger car batteries.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 20 Mar. 2026
  • That’s in spite of the fact total passenger car sales in the aforementioned duo, even when combined, are still only half the size of the latter.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 3 July 2025
  • The four-door Honda Civic passenger car struck the rear of the residence, but no one inside the home was hurt.
    — Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Mar. 2024
  • They were transported in a passenger car to a local hospital, police said.
    — Melina Khan, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The result is a truck that handles more like a passenger car, even in challenging winter conditions.
    — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Not listed is an event that was shown on video where the Tesla’s tire hit the front side of a parked passenger car in a parking lot on day #1.
    — Brad Templeton, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Hydrogen has found little success in the passenger car market.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Hydrogen has found little success in the passenger car market.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The fully autonomous vehicle is unmanned and about half the width of a passenger car.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Jan. 2018
  • By 1950, the owners got rid of the streamlined passenger car and built a building for the restaurant.
    — Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Garcia’s relative and his girlfriend, who are not charged in the incident, were in a silver passenger car.
    — Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The passenger car reversed into the front of the stationary Waymo.
    — Andrea Guzmán, Austin American Statesman, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The Hyundai passenger car had extensive fire damage to the front bumper and engine compartment.
    — Ron Wood, arkansasonline.com, 2 Apr. 2024
  • However, places like China saw passenger car sales increase by more than 10%.
    — Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The vehicle which allegedly fled the scene is a white Mercedes passenger car, Howard said.
    — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The automaker reported an 8% drop in China passenger car sales last year.
    — Eunice Yoon,evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Tesla’s passenger car sales, by contrast, tumbled 14%, ranking just sixth with a 4% share of the market.
    — John Liu, CNN Money, 2 Apr. 2025
  • With the beginning of the new rail car service, Frisco ended its passenger car service to Bentonville.
    — Randy McCrory Vintage Bentonville, arkansasonline.com, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Just six inches of water can reach the bottom of the average passenger car and cause loss of control, and only a foot of water can float many vehicles.
    — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The goal was for NEVs to account for 20% of new passenger car sales by 2025.
    — Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 22 June 2026
  • Two other vehicles, a semi-truck without a trailer attached and another passenger car, were involved in the crash.
    — Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 21 May 2025
  • Witnesses told officers the shooting suspect was in a red passenger car that was last seen fleeing eastbound on Main Street.
    — Ellie Willard, The Arizona Republic, 16 Apr. 2023
  • These two-inch-high CD players should fit into nearly any passenger car going back to the ’80s or earlier.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2026

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