Example sentences for: carriages

How can you use “carriages” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Vehicle itself is Latin vehiculum a carriage; and even the early automobilist heard his machine called a horseless carriage , just as the early railroader heard his called an Iron Horse , which of course drew carriages of its own.

  • .. with such implements, carriages, cattle and sleds.”

  • In Victorian America, car was quickly applied to railway carriages, whence boxcars and passenger-cars , and also to tramways, first to horsecars and then to electric-cars , otherwise known as trolley cars , or streetcars , or simply cars (whence carfare ).

  • This collection of beautiful carriages celebrates those “gone-but-not-forgotten” days.

  • Much further back, automobiles were first known as horseless carriages; no one called the carriages they replaced animal-driven vehicles (though someone might call them that today, or tomorrow).


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