How to Use getaway car in a Sentence

getaway car

noun
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  • The video ends with the women posing by their getaway car as sirens blare in the background.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The rapper died shortly after, and the suspect fled in a getaway car.
    — Nikki Dobrin, Peoplemag, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The men and a third suspect, the driver of the getaway car, had been waiting in the area for at least an hour before the killing, police said.
    — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Kevin Del Valle-Salaman, 24, who police say drove the getaway car, faces 28 charges.
    — John H. Tucker, cleveland, 19 July 2023
  • In one scene, her character pulls up in a getaway car beside that of her friends.
    — Emily Lordi, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Later, Bourgeois said, Shipp counted the bank loot and gave him $2,000 for driving the getaway car.
    — Ashley Luthern, Journal Sentinel, 10 May 2023
  • Three men had approached the Subaru while a woman waited in a getaway car.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2023
  • In 1976, he was arrested a few months after his palm print was found in a getaway car that had been used in a bombing.
    — David Segal, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The getaway car once waited in a handicapped zone, then sped off the wrong direction down a one-way street.
    — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
  • When the bank manager runs out, aiming his gun at the getaway car, Clouseau beats him over the head with his baton.
    — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 5 Nov. 2023
  • And while a getaway car brings to mind Reputation, fans are convinced that 1989 is the next album to be re-released.
    — Alexandra Schneider, Seventeen, 10 July 2023
  • Their next driving song will probably have tin cans dangling off the getaway car’s bumper.
    — Vulture, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The pair drives away from the store a getaway car, before being seen inside of an empty bedroom kissing.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2023
  • He was first deported after driving the getaway car for a robbery as a teen in Georgia.
    — Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Mar. 2024
  • With Roope Hintz streaking down the ice like a getaway car on the freeway, Robertson needed only the slightest of touches to find Hintz, who clanked his shot off the post and in for his 33rd goal of the year.
    — Peter Warren, Dallas News, 23 Mar. 2023
  • And another breakthrough was made when Keen's hair from her apartment was compared to the one recovered from the getaway car.
    — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2023
  • In the early hours of Aug. 9, Kasabian waited in the getaway car outside a Los Angeles mansion.
    — Brandon Livesay, Peoplemag, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Neither the murder weapon nor the getaway car were ever recovered.
    — John L. Smith, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2024
  • But, after the shooting stops and the loot is packed away in the getaway car, Danny hesitates to execute Abbarca’s men who are zip-tied on the floor.
    — Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The unidentified inmate arranged for the sibling to pick up the getaway car in High Point, North Carolina, the document says.
    — Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 2 May 2023
  • But the pair were filmed leaving the stadium, papped in the getaway car, and rumored to have bought out an entire KC restaurant in order to dine privately.
    — Vulture, 24 Sep. 2023
  • But the pair were filmed leaving the stadium, papped in the getaway car, and rumored to have bought out an entire KC restaurant in order to dine privately.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 2 June 2024
  • Wright's brother, Milton Wright, helped search for the getaway car, claiming that the same men tried to rob him in a separate incident earlier in the day.
    — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The men allegedly sped off in a getaway car that detectives later found and processed, police said.
    — Staff Reports, Hartford Courant, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The reports don’t say whether investigators found him or determined if that was the getaway car.
    — Journal Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Authorities suspect Sanders fired the fatal bullet, while Brown drove the getaway car.
    — Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The car has an adequate horsepower of 147 but isn’t really a neck jerker getaway car.
    — David Krumboltz, The Mercury News, 23 June 2024
  • Garcia then fled in a getaway car allegedly driven by someone else.
    — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Vicky White got an orange getaway car and gathered supplies in the preceding days, officials say.
    — Sara Smart, CNN, 5 May 2023
  • Advertisement The four then fled in a getaway car before police arrived.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2024

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