cable car
noun
: a vehicle moved by an endless cable:
a
: one suspended from an overhead cable
b
: one that moves along tracks
Examples of cable car in a Sentence
The skiers took a cable car to the top of the mountain.
Tourists packed the cable cars on the hilly streets of San Francisco.
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Traffic on California Street, including the California cable car line, was blocked for several hours during the investigation.
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Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 12 June 2026
By the turn of the 20th century, new modes of transportation like the cable car, the street car and the trolley allowed people to live further away from their work and at the same time created an incentive for businesses to locate at the downtown stations where the lines merged, says Schwarzer.
—Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 10 June 2026
And, above all, in Montserrat, where pilgrims arrive by bus, cable car, cog railway and strenuous trails.
—ABC News, 9 June 2026
Clanging cable cars still climb up and down the streets, although these days they’re joined by self-driving taxis, an ever-present reminder of the whirring tech scene.
—Becky Duffett, Bon Appetit Magazine, 8 June 2026
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Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 12 June 2026
By the turn of the 20th century, new modes of transportation like the cable car, the street car and the trolley allowed people to live further away from their work and at the same time created an incentive for businesses to locate at the downtown stations where the lines merged, says Schwarzer.
—Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 10 June 2026
And, above all, in Montserrat, where pilgrims arrive by bus, cable car, cog railway and strenuous trails.
—ABC News, 9 June 2026
Clanging cable cars still climb up and down the streets, although these days they’re joined by self-driving taxis, an ever-present reminder of the whirring tech scene.
—Becky Duffett, Bon Appetit Magazine, 8 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for cable car
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“Cable car.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cable%20car. Accessed 13 Jun. 2026.
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