How to Use streetcar in a Sentence

streetcar

noun
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  • Gone are the days when the No. 19 streetcar clanged up and down Harford Road.
    — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 19 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • Some of the streets still have cobblestone and the remains of streetcar tracks.
    — Noreen Malone, New York Times, 1 June 2023
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • The current voice on the streetcar is Cincinnati native and 98 Degrees singer Nick Lachey.
    — Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 9 Sep. 2021
  • The addition was four miles from the city, a long commute with no paved roads and no streetcar service.
    — Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 May 2024
  • At first, police chased tips about a car following the streetcar that night.
    — Star Tribune, 24 July 2021
  • That's the only explored route that would take streetcar deep into west Mesa.
    — Joshua Bowling, The Arizona Republic, 14 Dec. 2021
  • There was also talk that the Northern Texas Traction Co. would build a streetcar line out to the campus in the near future.
    — Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 May 2024
  • The Hop Streetcar: The streetcar stop serves the Milwaukee lakefront.
    — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 17 June 2024
  • And the forthcoming streetcar on Main will connect the residents to the Plaza and downtown.
    — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 11 May 2024
  • When the QLine streetcar first arrived in Detroit in 2017, it was seen as a new future of mass transit in a city where cars are king.
    — Camille Squires, Quartz, 17 Aug. 2021
  • On Friday, a crash in Milwaukee’s downtown killed a 40-year-old passenger of a car that struck the handrail of the streetcar.
    — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 18 July 2022
  • The company couldn’t keep up with the maintenance, so in April 1925 Sherman announced the end of the streetcar service.
    — Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 24 Sep. 2021

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