How to Use pillion in a Sentence

pillion

noun
  • Direct your gaze to the compact two-into-two Akrapovic exhaust snaking its way to the rear, where a sharp pillion cowl caps the seat.
    — New Atlas, 6 Mar. 2026
  • There are some café racing elements in there too, like the pillion cover and the tubular license plate holder fastened to the swingarm's side.
    — New Atlas, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Melling rode along with them as a passenger in the pillion seat that gives the film its name, and accompanied some of them to Cambridge Pride.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The Travel Pack adds a tank bag and soft saddlebags, while the Comfort Pack includes a windscreen, wind deflectors, and plusher seats for both rider and pillion.
    — New Atlas, 19 Oct. 2025
  • This model is designed for touring with a whole lotta luggage and a pillion passenger without breaking a sweat, and looking good doing it – albeit also looking virtually the same as the 2023 edition.
    — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The film gets aesthetically expressive in slow-motion sequences when Colin is riding pillion on Ray’s bike, capturing the sensual excitement of it all, the wild ride that Colin has chosen to take.
    — Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2026
  • When Ray lavishes attention on another biker’s pet pillion, Kevin (Jake Shears of the Scissor Sisters), Colin sulks until his master unzips his trousers and gives him a treat.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Tragedy In November 2017, the elder Razgatlıoğlu was riding his motorcycle through the streets of Antalya, Turkey, with his young girlfriend, Ülkü Özcan, who was riding pillion.
    — Jonathan Hawkins, CNN Money, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The teens were riding on the bike, one driving and the other as the pillion passenger, when they were killed in the apparent hit-and-run in the early hours of Thursday, May 7, after a BMW struck their bike near Aberthaw Road in Newport, Wales, according to Gwent Police.
    — Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 10 May 2026

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