Example sentences for: wagons

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

  • 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).

  • Gore glides across Iowa's highways in a sleek vice-presidential motorcade, with a plush bus for the candidate, black wagons full of Secret Service agents, an ambulance, and two press buses.

  • Rig once applied to wagons; so did truck and its British counterpart lorry .

  • Official decrees standardized weights and measures and even the axle dimensions of all wagons (the latter edict kept transport in the same ruts for countless years).

  • The wagons will circle to defend this last bastion of human conceit.


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