Examples of minibus in a Sentence
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Among those trapped were 50 employees of the Silks Place Hotel Taroko, who had been traveling to work in minibuses when the quake hit.
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Helen Regan, CNN, 4 Apr. 2024
Aerial cameras spotted others in a minibus on Taiwan Highway 8, a route that cuts through the area.
—Joyce Huang, ABC News, 4 Apr. 2024
Authorities have arranged for a minibus to take some relatives to the scene of the accident on Friday, and then to the hospital to check on the sole survivor, Radzilani said, adding that officials worked into the early hours to recover bodies and are back on the scene on Friday.
—Amy Cassidy, CNN, 29 Mar. 2024
On Thursday afternoon, the team piled into a minibus to make the two-hour trip to Poughkeepsie for the game.
—Katherine Rosman, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2024
Days later, a gang opened fire on a crowded minibus after the driver refused to comply with orders at a checkpoint known as a place where criminals seek to extort civilians.
—Declan Walsh, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024
Participants choosing the greener options are once more relegated to the slushy sidewalks or forced into minibuses with no priority over private cars.
—Peter Vanham, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2024
Local minibuses decked out in vibrant colors and crammed with passengers careened down jagged roads.
—Rosalind Cummings-Yeates, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
On a rainy September night, the truck rumbled onto the infield of the Rockford Speedway in Illinois, stopping with its business end about 10 feet from a junk minibus.
—John Keilman, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2023
Helen Regan, CNN, 4 Apr. 2024
Aerial cameras spotted others in a minibus on Taiwan Highway 8, a route that cuts through the area.
—Joyce Huang, ABC News, 4 Apr. 2024
Authorities have arranged for a minibus to take some relatives to the scene of the accident on Friday, and then to the hospital to check on the sole survivor, Radzilani said, adding that officials worked into the early hours to recover bodies and are back on the scene on Friday.
—Amy Cassidy, CNN, 29 Mar. 2024
On Thursday afternoon, the team piled into a minibus to make the two-hour trip to Poughkeepsie for the game.
—Katherine Rosman, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2024
Days later, a gang opened fire on a crowded minibus after the driver refused to comply with orders at a checkpoint known as a place where criminals seek to extort civilians.
—Declan Walsh, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024
Participants choosing the greener options are once more relegated to the slushy sidewalks or forced into minibuses with no priority over private cars.
—Peter Vanham, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2024
Local minibuses decked out in vibrant colors and crammed with passengers careened down jagged roads.
—Rosalind Cummings-Yeates, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
On a rainy September night, the truck rumbled onto the infield of the Rockford Speedway in Illinois, stopping with its business end about 10 feet from a junk minibus.
—John Keilman, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2023
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First Known Use
1958, in the meaning defined above
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minibus
noun
mini·bus
ˈmin-i-ˌbəs 
: a small bus
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