Example sentences for: carriages

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

  • 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 ).

  • It now houses elements of the Museu de les Artes Decoratives (Museum of Decorative Arts) and a collection of carriages.

  • When we say that luxurious little stores serve the carriage trade , we commemorate the coachmen who waited in the cold while the very rich shopped, for only the very rich could afford to come in carriages of their own.

  • Since the end of the war, I have been on this line, as they say: a long, twisted line stretching from Naples to the cold north, a line of locals, trams, taxis, and carriages.

  • In the evenings, calendrias — balloon-draped horse carriages — line up to take passengers for rides.


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