Example sentences for: wagon

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

  • Farming implements like plow and hayrake have kept their old horse-drawn names, and so have most utility vehicles, like fire engine, Black Maria, paddy wagon, ambulance , and delivery van --the last clipped from caravan living wagon, which survives in full in England to mean a camping trailer.

  • I wish to dicker with two of Luc Sante's assertions in his piece on Robert Hughes' New Yankee TV Art Wagon, "Master of All He Surveys."

  • 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.

  • ..and ruts created by covered wagon traffic on the- Oregon Trail are still clearly visible.

  • 2 On the other hand, the retail “wagon” should not be too full, since stocking retail shelves with unpopular items also results in excess costs—the cost of capital tied up in unwanted goods, the opportunity cost of the space that could be used for products that customers would buy if present, and, ultimately, lost margin when retailers must resort to price markdowns or product disposal to clear languishing items from their shelves.


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