Example sentences for: used-car

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

  • Overlapping frames are one of several gimmicks the ad maker uses to get around the fact that the spot was shot not on film but on videotape, which tends to look flat, metallic, too much like the local ads for discount stores and used-car lots.

  • The Wall Street Journal and NYT report that today Microsoft will announce a new alliance with Ford under which Microsoft's Carpoint auto shopping Web site will be able to provide increased information online about Fords--such as particulars about new car inventory or used-car service records--to potential buyers.

  • ) "Holy Ghost power !!" might sound like something out of a used-car commercial--and Duvall is as clear-eyed on the capitalism-evangelism correlation as the Marxist-leaning Antony Thomas in his skeptical 1980s documentary Thy Kingdom Come ...Thy Will Be Done . But Duvall also subscribes to an American dramatic tradition (which can be discerned in works as various as The Iceman Cometh and The Music Man ) that says that any fervent belief, even one based on uncertain premises and fueled by an impure source, can give life, the way a placebo can be an authentic remedy if it empowers the body to heal itself.

  • That's one reason why the category-killer approach to car-selling, exemplified by AutoNation (which just announced it was closing its used-car superstores), has floundered so badly.


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