How to Use stagecoach in a Sentence

stagecoach

noun
  • There was a stagecoach on blocks up at this steakhouse.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 June 2026
  • Maybe so, but the runaway stagecoach is about to crash into a canyon of gold.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 21 July 2023
  • Over the years, the house has functioned as a post office, inn, stagecoach stop and town hall.
    — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
  • An outlaw and his gang attack a stagecoach, leaving its guard to take the blame.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
  • Emily and her unwanted suitor board the train by way of stagecoach.
    — Kristin Vartan, EW.com, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Yes, those are real Wells Fargo wood stagecoach wheels out front.
    — Allen Pierleoni, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Yes, those are real Wells Fargo wood stagecoach wheels out front.
    — Allen Pierleoni, sacbee.com, 2 June 2017
  • An ambush of tigers waited, guns drawn, for the stagecoach to enter the mountain pass.
    — J. C. Duffy, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The route’s first iteration was as a stagecoach line north of Phoenix.
    — Madeline Nguyen, The Arizona Republic, 13 May 2024
  • The route’s first iteration was as a stagecoach line north of Phoenix.
    — Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Admission is waived, but stagecoach rides are $3 per person.
    — Debra Skodack, Kansas City Star, 3 Dec. 2025
  • In one maze, a Conestoga wagon and stagecoach have come out of storage to find new life.
    — Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Concord coaches were built just a few miles away and stagecoach travel was key to Wakefield’s growth.
    — David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Fields helped pave the way for other women and people of color to become stagecoach drivers and postal workers.
    — Yana Kunichoff, The Arizona Republic, 13 June 2023
  • There are several Civil War Westerns where a stagecoach full of gold is robbed.
    — Rich Heldenfels, Boston Herald, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Ride an antique car or stagecoach, or head into the Iron Door Mine, rumored to be haunted.
    — Scott Craven, azcentral, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Back then the road was narrow, visitors less common, though the stagecoach stopped at the Gowan orchard for a fresh team of horses.
    — Chelsea Davis, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
  • It was built in 1846 as a stagecoach stop and has now been refurbished as a historic site that is open to the public for tours.
    — Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 26 Sep. 2024
  • The red dirt road, lined with tall oak trees, served as the main thoroughfare for stagecoaches in the early to mid-1800s.
    — Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 17 Aug. 2023
  • In the latest Texas gold fight, though, six-shooters, stagecoaches and dusty trails have been replaced by legal briefs and courtrooms.
    — Paul Flahive, Austin American Statesman, 5 Mar. 2026
  • This historic former stagecoach stop offers a scenic escape from the city and an authentic taste of the Old West.
    — Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 23 Mar. 2022
  • With the introduction of the railroad in 1855, road use and the demand for a stagecoach declined.
    — Laura Baird, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2017
  • Sacramento has long played a pivotal role in Wells Fargo’s history, dating back to the stagecoach.
    — Daniel Hunt, Sacbee.com, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Each fall for 13 years, Beth Wright-Smith fired up a nine-story-tall hot-air balloon shaped like a stagecoach and took to the desert skies.
    — Ben Eisen, WSJ, 23 July 2021
  • The city started out as a stagecoach stop in the 1880s and was originally named Coldwater.
    — Alexandra Hardle, The Arizona Republic, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Three million onlookers gathered in the streets to cheer as the queen made her way to Westminster Abbey in a 24-foot-long gold stagecoach.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 1 June 2018
  • Ten miles south, off the old Cheyenne–Deadwood stagecoach route, is one of the few monuments in the country that is dedicated to a saloon’s madam.
    — Jennifer Percy, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
  • Another historic gem, Black Mountain Inn, was built in the 1830s as a stagecoach stop.
    — Kristy Tolley, Travel + Leisure, 8 May 2026
  • The Leesville–Ladoga stagecoach came through each day, headed to the mines or to the several hotels beside the mineral springs that dotted the area.
    — Jerry Brown, The New York Review of Books, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Nashotah The former stagecoach stop, which opened in 1848—the same year Wisconsin became a state—offers a menu big on steaks and seafood.
    — Travel Wisconsin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2017

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