How to Use coaster in a Sentence

coaster

noun
  • Set the glass on a coaster.
  • One is to the left and one is to the right side of the coaster.
    Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2024
  • The potential of the area where the Primeval Whirl coaster was.
    Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The area will include the new Wild Mouse coaster along the eastern beach side of the park.
    Craig Webb, The Enquirer, 2 May 2023
  • The cover helps keep the tea hot but can be used as a coaster as well.
    Billy Cadden, Popular Science, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Yet, roller-coaster seasons can end on a high note with a win in the Iron Bowl.
    Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al, 24 Nov. 2022
  • The ride was the fastest and steepest complete-circuit coaster in the world at the time of its launch, the park said.
    Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Cedar Point is known for its coasters, and Wild Mouse will be its 18th.
    Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2023
  • These past two years have been a wild roller-coaster ride.
    John F. Wasik, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021
  • The face on the coaster is the punchline moment to views, but not to Marjanovic.
    Dallas News, 4 May 2022
  • The tumbler of liquor and liqueur arrived for her on a drink coaster.
    Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Nov. 2022
  • While the ride was in descent, the bracket hit the coaster’s track and came off the coaster train.
    Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 2 May 2024
  • While the ride was in descent, the bracket hit the coaster’s track and came off the coaster's train.
    Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 13 May 2024
  • Updates to the first drop in the coaster will shift the hill from 45 degrees to 53 degrees.
    Kaitlin Lewis, The Enquirer, 3 Jan. 2022
  • Be sure to use a coaster to keep from marking the table.
    Andrea Wurzburger, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Wagner's video shows a crack in a beam that appears to hold up the rails of the coaster.
    Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 10 July 2023
  • Place your pint glass on a coaster that will leave you in stitches.
    Mark Stock, Men's Health, 19 Sep. 2022
  • That move sparked a roller-coaster day for the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note.
    Hannah Miao and Chelsey Dulaney, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2022
  • This was a wild game, and people on Twitter had quite the roller-coaster ride all game.
    Tim Bielik, cleveland, 10 Oct. 2021
  • It is known for its cave tours, alpine coaster and swing ride that sits on the edge of a cliff and sends riders over a canyon.
    Greg Wehner, Fox News, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Since the spring of 2020, parents of young children have been on a roller-coaster ride, and not the Space Mountain kind.
    Elizabeth G. Dunn, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Shopping for coasters might not be the most thrilling, but these are anything but dull.
    Cristian Esteban, Rolling Stone, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Stirling said the coaster was made for a friend who was leaving the district.
    Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Their season, a roller-coaster ride since Week 1, has maybe two games left.
    Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 26 Dec. 2021
  • The coaster features a soap-box derby theme and includes a 70-foot first hill.
    Susan Glaser, cleveland, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Some of the roller-coaster of the past two-plus years is a result of scientific progress.
    Kent Sepkowitz, CNN, 26 May 2022
  • In 1986, the coaster was rethemed as Fairly Odd Coaster.
    Charles Infosino, The Enquirer, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Three plays that could have gone the other way, with any one of those flipping the outcome, kept the roller-coaster ride a smile-fest.
    Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2022
  • What to expect: Snoopy's Racing Railway will be a new steel launch coaster with a speed of 31 miles per hour.
    Laura Barrero, Axios, 10 Aug. 2024
  • The coaster reaches speeds up to 67 mph and shatters a world record with five total inversions, the most of any dive coaster in the world.
    Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 12 Sep. 2024

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