How to Use automotive in a Sentence

automotive

adjective
  • The store stocks automotive parts.
  • In the '50s, Peel had a crack at two automotive projects.
    — Alex Goy, Ars Technica, 27 May 2024
  • The whole automotive world is there and available for you.
    — Steven Cole Smith, Car and Driver, 21 Aug. 2022
  • There are 13 kinds of granola in the store, there are more than 60 major automotive brands.
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 May 2023
  • The Baltimore port is one of the largest in the U.S. and a leading export point for the automotive industry.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2024
  • It's known for its pizzas baked in dark, deep pans once used for automotive parts.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 10 July 2023
  • Her favorite car Yashere should feel right at home with the automotive vibe in Detroit.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 21 July 2023
  • Ready to take home a piece of both art and automotive history?
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2022
  • EVs are among the seismic events shocking the automotive supply chain to its core.
    — Susan Galer, Forbes, 17 May 2022
  • The tariffs could add thousands of dollars to the cost of cars, automotive experts say.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 19 Feb. 2025
  • But this year, the event is confronting a UAW strike that has sent shockwaves through the automotive industry.
    — Michael Dobuski, ABC News, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Not even Leno's own team of automotive experts could fix it.
    — Liam Rappleye, Detroit Free Press, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The science of car screens has come a long way since 1986, when the Buick Riviera offered the first automotive touchscreen—a full decade ahead of any rival.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Covid maybe the best thing that ever happened to the future of the automotive industry.
    — Michael Gale, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Nvidia has spent the better part of a decade attempting to branch out into the automotive market.
    — Jon Porter, The Verge, 23 Nov. 2023
  • The company opened a heat-treating plant for automotive aluminum sheet at the same site in 2020.
    — Bob Tita, WSJ, 11 May 2022
  • Our own Elana Scherr likened this sort of testing to automotive speed dating.
    — Car and Driver, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The entire automotive supply chain needs to be decarbonized in order to meet the goals set out in the Paris agreement.
    — Jon Porter, The Verge, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Months of markdowns have taken a toll on automotive gross margin, which fell to a four-year low in the second quarter.
    — Diana Li, Fortune, 20 July 2023
  • Right now, luxury electric SUVs — the filet mignon of the automotive world — are on sale.
    — Camila Domonoske, NPR, 6 May 2024
  • Texas Instruments said the automotive sector is the only area that held strong in the quarter.
    — Meghan Bobrowsky, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2022
  • No automotive nameplate has as grand a legacy as does the Rolls-Royce Phantom.
    — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 12 May 2022
  • Subaru knows its people, who are among the most loyal to any automotive brand.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 7 May 2022
  • In the automotive industry, the word iconic is rarely used.
    — Marc Grasso, Hartford Courant, 10 Sep. 2022
  • But many of those jobs are in areas like finance and the automotive industry.
    — Kalley Huang, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2022
  • The plan also comes with $750 worth of coverage for your automotive tools.
    — Liz Knueven, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2024
  • One automotive journalist was conducting a brake test (in the United Kingdom) from 80 mph when the brake pedal went to the floor and wouldn’t slow the car down in the slightest.
    — Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 10 Aug. 2022
  • His threat of 25 percent tariffs on, among other things, car imports from the EU could spark an automotive trade war.
    — Carlton Reid, WIRED, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Fain is one of the only high-profile supporters of Trump’s tariffs among automotive leaders.
    — Michael Wayland, CNBC, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Most, if not all, U.S. industries will be impacted by the tariffs, from retailers to restaurants to the automotive industry.
    — William Gavin, Quartz, 27 Feb. 2025

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