How to Use streetcar in a Sentence

streetcar

noun
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  • Demise of Public Transit The end of the war marked the end of the line for streetcars.
    — Jay L. Zagorsky, WIRED, 24 Aug. 2024
  • The lots are a one-stop ride on the streetcar or a 10-minute walk to the City Market.
    — Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 9 July 2024
  • Gone are the days when the No. 19 streetcar clanged up and down Harford Road.
    — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 19 Aug. 2021
  • The viaduct exists to this day and is part of a DART streetcar route.
    — Alyssa Fernandez, Dallas News, 15 Aug. 2020
  • By the 1950s and the end of streetcar service, the terminal was used for busses.
    — The Enquirer, 29 Aug. 2022
  • And there's even been talk about adding new streetcar routes.
    — The Enquirer, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Heflin, during the confrontation, tossed the man off the streetcar and shot him in the leg.
    — John Sharp, al, 13 Jan. 2021
  • Some of the streets still have cobblestone and the remains of streetcar tracks.
    — Noreen Malone, New York Times, 1 June 2023
  • Here, for decades, the streets went unpaved, and the streetcars and buses didn’t run.
    — Robert Wilonsky, Dallas News, 24 Jan. 2020
  • Due to Sunday's races running through the course of the streetcar, the Q-Line will not travel the full length of the tracks.
    — Alanna Williams, Detroit Free Press, 15 Oct. 2021
  • The city had considered adding a new trail or streetcar route atop the piers.
    — Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The man with a knife did not steal any money from the streetcar or the driver, NOPD said.
    — Carlie Wells, NOLA.com, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Once out of town, the streetcar entered a tunnel of green.
    — Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2021
  • The Past Decades ago, L.A. car commuters shared space with streetcars.
    — Curbed, 29 Nov. 2023
  • There are bike lanes, too, and the Muni’s J-Church streetcar line runs right down the middle.
    — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Sep. 2021
  • 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 surrealists used to choose a Paris streetcar at random, ride to the end of the line and then walk around.
    — Alison Gopnik, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The city plans to create 35 kiosks total, many at streetcar stops.
    — Margaret Cahill, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2021
  • 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
  • Traffic, horns, people rushing around us, the clunk of tires over the streetcar tracks.
    — USA Today, 26 June 2023
  • Who killed the Red Cars, once the grandest electric streetcar system in the nation?
    — Patt Morrison Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Themed drinks, photo booth, food trucks and ride streetcar to show.
    — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 25 June 2023
  • Bob and Ed met at a San Francisco streetcar stop in 1970.
    — Daniel Felsenthal, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Tours are by bus or streetcar or on foot and range from $30 to $70 per person, plus taxes and fees.
    — Elaine Rewolinski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Buses will stop at the transit concourse right next to The Hop streetcar L-Line.
    — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 9 May 2024
  • In 1948, the streetcar rails were removed and the upper deck was widened to two lanes in each direction.
    — Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 27 June 2024
  • The city rolled past: Muni buses, the funky old streetcars, tourists with cameras.
    — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Apr. 2023
  • But not in a romantic way, like a streetcar or a Ferris wheel.
    — Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Suddenly, this dude rides up on one of those hop-on, hop-off streetcars.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Band members and streetcar riders alike laughed as instruments were jostled by bumps in the tracks and the occasional out of tune note sounded as the streetcar ground to a stop.
    — Hg Biggs, Kansas City Star, 10 July 2024

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