Example sentences for: wagon

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

  • It may come as a shock to some suburban American liberals, but for children in Pakistan, the alternative to stitching Reebok soccer balls is not being driven to soccer practice in a Volvo station wagon.

  • They'd broken a kind of tacit agreement about behavior among rich people, the people who would never drive anything but a station wagon, and they had to be made to pay.

  • The British call station wagons estate cars , but they refer to freight cars on a train as goods wagons (borrowed into French as plain wagon , also used in wagons-lits , the sleeping cars on old trains like the Orient Express).

  • Originally Celtic for wagon , it was borrowed into Latin and thence Norman French as carre , yielding not only the verb carry and its abstract carriage , but also cargo, charge, chariot.

  • While attempting to cross the Sierra Nevada, George Donner’s wagon train became snowed in, and from November until February was stuck high in the mountains north of Lake Tahoe, at a point now known as the Donner Pass.


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