How to Use e-scooter in a Sentence

e-scooter

noun
  • As the two quibbled over the price, Butler stepped away and tried to steal the e-scooter.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Now, both e-scooters and e-bikes can be booked using the Lyft or Biketown app.
    Meira Gebel, Axios, 15 Aug. 2024
  • What can the city do about e-scooters blocking sidewalks?
    Tamia Fowlkes, Journal Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Now the city wants to reverse course to lure e-scooter companies back.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Last year, there were a total of 116 fires involving e-bikes and e-scooters.
    Bobby Caina Calvan, Fortune, 27 July 2023
  • Uber next plans to add the effects of using e-bikes, e-scooters, and UberX Share rides booked on the app, according to Axios.
    Sunny Nagpaul, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Last month, Baltimore issued a new round of e-bike and e-scooter permits for public use around the city.
    Dana Munro, Baltimore Sun, 25 July 2024
  • Those with a smartphone can locate, rent and park dockless e-scooters and e-bikes through an app, or riders can use the text-to-unlock plan.
    Kiersten Hacker, Baltimore Sun, 27 June 2024
  • The e-scooter rider, who was ejected from his ride, was in stable condition, cops said.
    John Annese, New York Daily News, 18 May 2025
  • Two people were seen near the museum riding e-scooters at about the time of the robbery, police told the museum.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 8 May 2024
  • Two 15-year-old boys are in the hospital after being hit by a car while riding an e-scooter on Tuesday evening.
    Beck Andrew Salgado, Journal Sentinel, 31 May 2023
  • At the end of the pilot program, the city conducted a survey that showed a 30 percent decrease in support for e-scooters in Lakewood.
    John Benson, cleveland, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Last year, an eight-year-old girl was killed when a e-scooter’s lithium-ion battery exploded in a couple’s living room in Queens.
    Emily Davies, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The company has also quadrupled its fleets since the pandemic began, with more than 6,500 e-scooters and e-bikes across the region.
    Heidi Pérez-Moreno, Washington Post, 20 June 2023
  • Why not try parking your gas-wasting car for short trips and ride-share, borrow or buy an eBike, e-scooter or street-legal electric golf cart.
    Edward Humes, The Mercury News, 23 Mar. 2024
  • In other Flickr albums, the rise of e-scooters from companies like Bird is evident.
    Abigail Gruskin, Baltimore Sun, 24 July 2023
  • Custom Robotics is preparing to launch a rugged off-road e-scooter called the Panzer.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 29 Mar. 2024
  • In one incident in January, an e-bike or e-scooter battery caught fire and injured 18 children at a day care in Queens.
    Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 5 July 2023
  • Bike totals also include e-bike, moped, and e-scooter riders.
    John Surico, Curbed, 21 Dec. 2023
  • San Diego was on the early front line of the e-scooter war because of our year-round temperate climate and our ranking as a top tourist destination.
    Barbara Bry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Madrid is not the first city to take action against e-scooter rentals, which have become increasingly divisive.
    Jack Guy, CNN, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Investing in improvements for rail, bus, roads and last-mile solutions like e-bikes and/or e-scooters.
    Alixel Cabrera, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The solution is to realize that e-bikes and e-scooters are motor vehicles.
    Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 19 Feb. 2024
  • There are also e-scooter sharing services through the Lime or Bit Mobility apps.
    Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 24 Oct. 2024
  • But Take Note: Experts recommend against e-scooters for anyone under 16 years old.
    Cheryl Fenton, Parents, 29 Sep. 2023
  • In November 2021 in London, a lithium-ion battery e-scooter fire started on a train and continued to burn on the platform at Parsons Green.
    John Orlando, New York Daily News, 16 Feb. 2025
  • Save up to 40% on basketballs, volleyballs, and footballs from Wilson, and e-scooters from Segway.
    Usa Today Staff, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The agency said that acting on instructions from Ukraine, the suspect picked up a homemade bomb in Moscow, placed it on an e-scooter and parked it at the entrance to Kirillov's apartment building.
    The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Four months after the return of e-scooters to Dallas, city transportation officials could change the rules to allow rides a little past 9 p.m. and increase the amount of scooters downtown.
    Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Anyone living in a big city knows the increasing nervousness as phone snatchers on bikes and e-scooters prey on victims walking sidewalks.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024

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