How to Use race car in a Sentence

race car

noun
  • Thought about driving a race car.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 15 Feb. 2026
  • The two take a scenic drive — although not in a race car — and play backgammon.
    — Samantha Conti, WWD, 5 Mar. 2025
  • The shutter speed is used to capture action, like a race car or a bird in flight.
    — ABC News, 11 Mar. 2026
  • But the orange and white car wasn't like any other 911 race car.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 16 Oct. 2023
  • And like a race car, it's designed for speed and agility, not for trips to the grocery store.
    — New Atlas, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The ball, race car, and suitcase are all adorned with the UConn logo.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Plus, shop Lego flowers, city skylines, and a race car on sale from $10.
    — Phoebe Sklansky, Parents, 1 July 2024
  • The neon yellow race car whipped around the corner, gunning it in a bid to lose the dragster on its tail.
    — William Liang, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2025
  • That’s a hard enough fight for the majority of people who climb into a race car.
    — Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The rest of the world knew Goldsmith as a Hall of Fame race car driver.
    — Mike Hutton, Chicago Tribune, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Another was a 5-foot-4-inch race car driver.
    — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Muniz has also pursued a career in race car driving.
    — Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 10 Apr. 2026
  • That's exactly what happens to a race car when a drag chute—a small parachute that comes out of the back—is deployed.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 7 July 2023
  • These performance sport systems make the X7 handle like a race car, on the street and track.
    — Tony Leopardo, The Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Among those is the wish of a child from Taiwan who had always dreamed of becoming a race car driver.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 2 Feb. 2025
  • But his final position was the least of the British race car driver’s concerns.
    — Sean Neumann, People.com, 16 June 2025
  • The speedometer like face and race car paint job live in a case the looks like an old school stopwatch, red and green buttons included.
    — Brad Lanphear, Men's Health, 27 July 2023
  • That means its power-to-weight ratio is high, and its driving dynamics should be less like a sports car and more like a race car.
    — Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 26 Jan. 2026
  • That isn’t quite race car performance, but still an impressive boost to high-speed cornering.
    — Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The win put him behind the wheel of a Nissan race car in real-world competitions.
    — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The first 910 race car is currently up for bid on Bring a Trailer.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 16 May 2025
  • Carradine always said that race car driving was his true love because winning a race meant that no one was better than him.
    — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The bobblehead is standing in between a race car and basketball, which both bobble.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The Australian race car driver says the idea behind the short film came through their partnerships with Beats.
    — Nicole Fell, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 July 2024
  • GoDaddy’s teaser, which came out a full month ahead of the game, features a race car and an Italian.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 29 Jan. 2025
  • That car served as the road-going counterpart to the automaker's Tipo 33 race car.
    — Greg S. Fink, Car and Driver, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Notably, Muniz pursued his lifelong dream of being a race car driver.
    — Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 10 Apr. 2026
  • As for whether the girls will get behind the wheel of a race car one day, Earnhardt and Amy have given their thoughts on the matter.
    — Audrey Schmidt, People.com, 16 Feb. 2025
  • Block sold the company years later to become a professional race car driver.
    — ABC News, 8 Jan. 2023
  • Dorothy Levitt Levitt is known as one of Britain's earliest race car drivers and a journalist.
    — Amritpal Kaur Sandhu-Longoria, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023

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