Recent Examples on the WebLater, Matar’s brother, Ziad, narrowly escaped a carful of would-be kidnappers who chased him all the way to his boarding school in a Swiss mountain village.—Robert F. Worth, Foreign Affairs, 11 Apr. 2017 One German Turkish university student was unloading a carful of phone-charging banks.—Erika Solomon, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Feb. 2023 The camera feed is useful not only when a carful of rear-seat passengers or bulky cargo obstructs the view but even at other times, owing to the forest of thick pillars.—Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 9 Dec. 2022 Police responded to the Shake Shack at Pinecrest at 11:23 p.m. Sept. 24 with a carful of juveniles causing a disturbance.—Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 30 Sep. 2022 At one point during our interview, a carful of boys drives by, honking and waving.—Ashley Stimpson, Longreads, 19 Feb. 2022 In Oman vague guidelines meant for historical artifacts snared Farmer and Ward, who were arrested there with a carful of meteorites in 2011 and sentenced, after a brief trial, to 6 months in prison.—Joshua Sokol, Science | AAAS, 13 Aug. 2020 When a carful of young people pulled up, eying a tobacco shop on the ground floor, a thin, bearded man in reading glasses and a colorful button-down shirt told them that there was nothing to steal.—Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 15 June 2020 There was another test about a week ago with a carful of cable car technicians.—Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 7 Sep. 2019
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