How to Use minibus in a Sentence

minibus

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  • The Costa Rican who was killed in the crash was driving the minibus.
    — Elliot Hughes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Women danced on minibuses and the sound of drums and music blared in the streets.
    — Carley Petesch, Orange County Register, 26 Jan. 2017
  • The shaky footage also showed what appeared to be a minibus on fire.
    — Fox News, 22 Sep. 2020
  • The charred minibus was still on the road near the city on Saturday morning.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Sep. 2019
  • Walker, played by Zak Resnick, who sells clothes out of his minibus.
    — Jessica Zack, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 June 2018
  • When no one else strolled into the park to peek at the bodies, the men loaded the bags into the back of a minibus.
    — Raja Abdulrahim, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2018
  • The first avalanche buried a snow-clearing vehicle and a minibus.
    — Suzan Fraser, USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2020
  • For a change of scenery but the same glorious sea, walk to Büyük Çakıl Beach or catch a minibus to Kaputaş.
    — Lisa Morrow, CNN, 25 Apr. 2022
  • The school owns its own bus company and has a fleet of 66 buses and four minibuses.
    — Peter Marteka, Courant Community, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Emerging out of the dust clouds that gather closer and closer is a small minibus.
    — Kristin Davis, Marie Claire, 30 July 2015
  • Days later, explosions destroyed two mosques and a minibus in the north of the country.
    — New York Times, 1 May 2022
  • On Thursday afternoon, the team piled into a minibus to make the two-hour trip to Poughkeepsie for the game.
    — Katherine Rosman, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2024
  • For starters, Chopra couldn’t sit down in it, and instead took a minibus to the museum and arrived standing up.
    — Maria Ward, Vogue, 23 Apr. 2019
  • The video, shot by a man detained in a Moscow protest, shows a group of people jammed into a police minibus.
    — Fox News, 5 Feb. 2021
  • But, after the delivery, on the way back to Al-Rastan, the cousin took a minibus, and the vehicle was ambushed by regime troops.
    — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Packed minibuses streaked through the slum's main arteries.
    — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2017
  • That evening the minibuses on the Muhajireen–Bab Touma route were crowded with passengers.
    — Jonathan Wright, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
  • To reach Arslanbob, take a marshrutka (a local minibus) from Jalal-Abad or Osh.
    — Kay Rodriguez, National Geographic, 27 Mar. 2019
  • Buy it for anyone on your holiday gift list who loves to put things together and has a soft spot in their heart for the era of the VW minibus.
    — Jenny Williams, WIRED, 30 Sep. 2011
  • Once a day, everyone piles into a minibus and goes to a castle, a winery or a medieval monastery.
    — Sara Tucker, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2018
  • Every wall of the Boomerang Bookshop minibus has been converted to bookshelves.
    — Eric Ginsburg, Teen Vogue, 8 Jan. 2019
  • There were also reports on social media of at least eight civilian deaths when a minibus was struck.
    — Carlotta Gall, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Feb. 2020
  • Packed into a black minibus heading from Jerusalem into the occupied West Bank, the group of Israelis is on a mission.
    — Dina Kraft, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2018
  • On our way from the ship back to Kariba Airport, our minibus had to make a quick maneuver in reverse to avoid the ire of two bull elephants walking down the road.
    — Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 17 Apr. 2023
  • But the money was enough to buy three new minibuses to transport Torcy's players to matches and training.
    — John Leicester, Fox News, 20 May 2018
  • But the money was enough to buy three new minibuses to transport Torcy’s players to matches and training.
    — Washington Post, 20 May 2018
  • Elsewhere in northern Syria, a bomb exploded on a minibus, killing two people and wounding nine near the town of Azaz.
    — Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2019
  • At the moment, the truth is that someone like Daisy is more likely to catch the virus from a jet-setting employer than from a fellow minibus taxi commuter.
    — Anastasia Edel, The New York Review of Books, 21 Mar. 2020
  • Traveling in a minibus together, jet-lagged, laughing and cracking jokes, those are the bits that stay with you more than anything else.
    — Geri Horner, Marie Claire, 12 July 2016
  • Local minibuses decked out in vibrant colors and crammed with passengers careened down jagged roads.
    — Rosalind Cummings-Yeates, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024

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