How to Use streetcar in a Sentence

streetcar

noun
  • And there's even been talk about adding new streetcar routes.
    — The Enquirer, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Themed drinks, photo booth, food trucks and ride streetcar to show.
    — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 25 June 2023
  • The streetcar remains free to ride.
    — Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The vision is to hop off the streetcar, grab a bite, then hop back on.
    — Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 18 Nov. 2025
  • The city had considered adding a new trail or streetcar route atop the piers.
    — Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2022
  • That same year brought the first electric streetcar that ran down the boulevard.
    — Dina Kesbeh, Houston Chronicle, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Here, for decades, the streets went unpaved, and the streetcars and buses didn’t run.
    — Robert Wilonsky, Dallas News, 24 Jan. 2020
  • All that to get to the bottom of a streetcar derailment in one city.
    — Mario Vuksan, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The first streetcar was only 2 years old, as was the town’s first artesian well.
    — Matt Leclercq, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The frequency of the streetcar depends on the time of day and day of the week.
    — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2025
  • It was located in an old streetcar, with only three booths for guests to dine.
    — Charlotte Observer, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The storm brought Baltimore’s streetcar and bus fleet to a stop.
    — baltimoresun.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Some of the streets still have cobblestone and the remains of streetcar tracks.
    — Noreen Malone, New York Times, 1 June 2023
  • The streetcar is free to ride, and route maps and schedules are available online.
    — Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Heflin, during the confrontation, tossed the man off the streetcar and shot him in the leg.
    — John Sharp, al, 13 Jan. 2021
  • The city plans to create 35 kiosks total, many at streetcar stops.
    — Margaret Cahill, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2021
  • Soon there was a deep hole and even the old Park Avenue streetcar tracks popped out.
    — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 13 July 2019
  • And a streetcar stood eerily intact.
    — Charles Pellegrino, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025
  • At the eleventh hour, the city's streetcar, The Hop, also made a cameo.
    — Vanessa Swales, jsonline.com, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Traffic, horns, people rushing around us, the clunk of tires over the streetcar tracks.
    — USA Today, 26 June 2023
  • The travel time might be even faster if there was a streetcar near the arena, but, alas, that was not meant to be.
    — Daniel Bice, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Buses, streetcars and trains ran an hour behind schedule.
    — Robert Wyss, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The streetcar, the pigeons, the sound of the ambulance.
    — Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
  • One day, Perez was crossing the street to catch a Muni streetcar.
    — Natalie Angley, CNN, 23 Mar. 2018
  • The streetcar will no longer end in a loop through the River Market.
    — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Walk or hop the streetcar to the Garden District.
    — Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The streetcar has been running in its current form since 1914.
    — Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The streetcar has been running in its current form since 1914.
    — Jillian Frankel, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Canal Street, with its swaying palm trees and bustling streetcar lines, serves as a grand gateway to the heart of the city.
    — John L. Dorman, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017
  • The bridge was blocked off for streetcar construction for two months in fall 2024.
    — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 23 Jan. 2025

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