How to Use dune buggy in a Sentence

dune buggy

noun
  • Kendall and Arie spend the day on dune buggies in the desert.
    Aurelie Corinthios, PEOPLE.com, 26 Feb. 2018
  • Your hosts will take you out in the dune buggies early in the evening.
    Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The Shriners’ clowns and dune buggies will also be at the giveaway event.
    Jessica Anderson, baltimoresun.com, 17 Aug. 2019
  • Soon after, Corigliano and a group of friends looked for a dune buggy to race into the desert.
    Lujain Jo and Suman Naishadham, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The opening scene shows the three hosts flipping over a dune buggy.
    Rodney Ho, ajc, 20 Jan. 2022
  • The owner of Peninsula Comics pulled up in a dune buggy, walked through the cluttered store and opened up the world.
    Peter Hartlaub, SFChronicle.com, 15 Dec. 2020
  • Clayton took Gabby to explore the beach in a dune buggy.
    Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 8 Mar. 2022
  • And funnily enough, VW’s rush to the future has put me a bit back in time, and into a dune buggy.
    Eric Adams, WIRED, 17 Aug. 2019
  • Tour through the desert in a 4x4, or go extreme off-roading in a dune buggy or on a quad bike with Expert Rangers.
    Latifah Al-Hazza, Travel + Leisure, 25 July 2023
  • One guy drove a dune buggy up the Rocky steps in celebration.
    Jessica Roy, The Cut, 2 Feb. 2018
  • But rather than looking a bit like a dune buggy with a small projector on top, it’s built to look a lot like a snake.
    Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 5 May 2023
  • Because of this, the brand had to blow the dune buggy up so that an adult could actually get behind the wheel.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 10 July 2023
  • Katie just turned her own world upside-down while trying to make a cool entrance in a dune buggy.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 22 June 2021
  • Also burned in the fire were a Harley-Davidson motorcycle and a Sand Rail dune buggy parked in the garage.
    Julie Gallant, Ramona Sentinel, 15 May 2018
  • While Sara Sampaio scooted around on a dune buggy in a camo bikini.
    Sarah Lindig, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Sep. 2016
  • Boyd posted a photo of the group posing in front of a dune buggy in the desert Thursday on Instagram.
    Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 5 May 2023
  • People who’d rather not get sand in their shoes can take a 40-minute tour aboard open, elongated dune buggies (saugatuckduneride.com).
    Susan Hack, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Like an evolved dune buggy, it is known as a side-by-side for the way its occupants sit beside each other.
    David Jeans, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Dragonfly weighs nearly a thousand pounds, and is roughly the size of a dune buggy.
    Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2019
  • Who wouldn’t like an electric dune buggy, smaller and lighter than the brand’s first two vehicles.
    Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Say it with us, loud enough for Volkswagen to hear: Electric dune buggies need to happen.
    Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 16 Apr. 2019
  • Older racers can fly, while younger kids can truck along on a kiddie track and a kiddie dune buggy track.
    Kit Waskom Pollard, baltimoresun.com, 8 May 2018
  • The families had a zipline in the backyard and would ride dirt bikes and dune buggies as well as go hiking with the family dog.
    Nate Owen, courant.com, 18 Aug. 2017
  • One of them, dubbed the Reboot Buggy, resembles a stretch version of the classic big-tired dune buggy.
    Adam Tschorn, latimes.com, 11 July 2019
  • His daughter Deborah died in 1982 after striking her head on the roll cage of a dune buggy while riding by a lake.
    Nathan Brown and Chris Deharde, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Dec. 2021
  • There's now a K1, which is a stationary bot, and a K7, which is essentially a robotic dune buggy.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Munson chose a dune buggy ride while Cullers' date included a boat ride and swimming with stingrays.
    Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Groups of friends often rent dune buggies and split the cost.
    Carla Vianna, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The preview for next week’s episode shows Mel and the ladies in Antigua driving dune buggies and swimming with sting rays.
    Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The only thing moving is a dune buggy running through the desert twenty miles away, kicking up a column of dust that hangs in the air.
    Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025

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