Example sentences for: double-decker

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

  • The talk contains the following compelling and reassuring passage, about a transport helicopter pilot, who came up on the radio volunteering to go pick up a fighter pilot shot down over a heavy concentration of Iraqi troops: "You need to remember a Chinook is about the size of a double-decker London bus with props, and it doesn't have guns.

  • As the double-decker boats get ready to leave the pier, bells ring, the gangplank is raised, deckhands in blue sailor suits man the hawsers, and a couple of hundred commuters begin a seven-minute sightseeing tour.

  • When the camera lingers on Mrs. Dalloway's daughter, Elizabeth (Katie Carr), as she sits on the top of a double-decker bus, the girl's face is blank and the moment empty of meaning.

  • The church and its double-decker cloister survived the 1755 earthquake, and in addition to royal tombs holds the relics of national heroes Vasco da Gama and the poet Luis de Camões.

  • In 1904, the narrow, double-decker trams ran along the waterfront, but land reclamation has placed them far inland.


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