Example sentences for: volkswagen

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

  • Live artillery shells, a dead sea turtle half the size of a Volkswagen Bettle, a drowned giraffe, antique crockery, pocketbooks, chemical sludge, raw sewage and about 5,000 cords of driftwood a year--the waters of New York Harbor yield a strage and eclectic bounty.

  • In describing mechanical contrivances, the Germans continue to use their word Wagen to mean car, as in Volkswagen ; and American English has the compound station wagon , originally a horse vehicle for fetching people at train stations.

  • Sabotage resurrects a Japanese import from the '70s--the Speed Racer cartoon series--to sell a '90s German import, the Volkswagen GTI.

  • Newsweek likens Apple's new iMac to the Volkswagen Beetle, saying it's both fun and functional.

  • To take only the most famous example, when Doyle Dane Bernbach came up with its brilliant ads for Volkswagen in the early 1960s, no other agency would have made those ads.


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