How to Use rickshaw in a Sentence

rickshaw

noun
  • Think of them when there is no auto rickshaw, no bus service.
    — Arunabh Saikia, Quartz India, 23 Mar. 2020
  • The first has a flat tone and is used mostly in bikes, rickshaws and hatchbacks.
    — Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 6 Sep. 2025
  • On the sidewalk, a slight man leaned against a bright-green auto rickshaw.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 25 July 2022
  • If someone is sick at night, a rickshaw will do just as well as an ambulance.
    — New York Times, 19 July 2021
  • That’s half the price of a new rickshaw powered by natural gas.
    — Clifford Krauss, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2023
  • Even with the challenges, the e-rickshaw market still has a lot going for it.
    — Simran Vaswani, Forbes, 16 June 2022
  • Thanks in part to her earnings, her husband has been able to buy an auto-rickshaw.
    — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Both ride-hailing giants have seen a big spike in auto-rickshaw rides, too.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 22 Feb. 2021
  • To get five liters of gasoline, auto-rickshaw drivers wait calmly in line for as long as five days.
    — New York Times, 19 July 2022
  • There are few cars, but the traffic is chaotic — a crush of cycle rickshaws, tuk-tuks and two-wheelers.
    — Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Bumped and bustled on scruffy buses, crowded trains and narrow rickshaws.
    — Laura Manske, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
  • To get 5 liters of gasoline, auto-rickshaw drivers wait calmly in line for as long as five days.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2022
  • Her romance with a rickshaw driver is shoved aside by an ambitious and ruthless army chief.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 2 Sep. 2021
  • On the day of the event, after dinner, an old friend hired a rickshaw from the city to congratulate.
    — Douglas Hofstadter, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Still another featured an Asian man in a rice-picker hat pulling a rickshaw.
    — NBC News, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Now, her mother works in a garment factory; her father, once a rice farmer, drives a rickshaw.
    — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Using the cash to start a small business, such as a tea stall or an auto-rickshaw service, remained a pipe dream.
    — Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2010
  • The goal for the WS18-19 was to make Roboy drive his rickshaw!
    — IEEE Spectrum, 19 Apr. 2019
  • There’s trishaws going by, which are like bicycle rickshaws.
    — AFAR Media, 30 May 2026
  • Many rickshaw pullers are migrants from the neighboring state of Bihar.
    — New York Times, 19 July 2021
  • News reports said the road in front of the explosion site was busy with people and tricycle rickshaws.
    — Fox News, 19 Nov. 2019
  • Once roaring with trucks, scooters, and rickshaws, the streets of Mandalay are silent today.
    — Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 6 Apr. 2020
  • Ola offers cars and auto rickshaws, and provides in-car services such as music and video on tablet devices.
    — Newley Purnell, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Some demonstrators arrived in rickshaws, which have been used to carry the wounded from the bloody clashes.
    — Time, 6 Oct. 2019
  • On the canvas of the rickshaw’s cabin, the owner had summed up his situation.
    — Mustafa Salim, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2022
  • The chickens themselves are kept in line by portable fencing and rickshaw-like platform coops.
    — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Nov. 2019
  • The rescuers had to move dozens of rickshaws and bikes so that the firemen could make their way through the narrow lanes enmeshed with electrical wire.
    — Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2019
  • Paytm makes a popular smartphone app that can be used to pay for goods and services spanning groceries to auto-rickshaw rides.
    — Mayumi Negishi, WSJ, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Depending on the situation, users can choose to drive it as a rickshaw or a scooter, or even switch between the two modes on the go.
    — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Nearby at a busy market in the heart of Karachi, Jamshed Awan sat on his rickshaw as traffic lurched past him.
    — New York Times, 23 Aug. 2022

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