How to Use motorbike in a Sentence

motorbike

noun
  • My friend was brave enough to get on a motorbike and drive it.
    Tariro Mzezewa, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2020
  • If motorbikes are more your thing, there's one for those too.
    Matthew MacConnell, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Last month a man pointed a gun at my head and stole my motorbike.
    Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2021
  • The robbers fled on a pair of motorbikes.
    Christopher Cann, USA Today, 25 Nov. 2025
  • The teenager walked a quarter mile and hopped on a motorbike to find it.
    Washington Post, 6 May 2022
  • Throngs of motorbikes and cars lined up at a gas station still in service.
    Sam Mednick, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
  • The concrete track that leads to his house is only wide enough for a motorbike.
    Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2020
  • All four thieves escaped on two motorbikes.
    Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The streets buzz with people and cars and motorbikes and buses.
    Daliah Singer, Denver Post, 5 June 2025
  • En route, three men on motorbikes surrounded his car and tried to steer him off the road.
    Christian Borys, Longreads, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Around midnight, one man parked his motorbike and joined his wife in blankets on the line.
    Fox News, 16 June 2019
  • Around them, the street bustled with men on motorbikes, dressed in fatigues and flip-flops.
    Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The robbers then fled on motorbikes.
    Sean Neumann, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
  • As young as age 2, Wolff was riding her own motorbike.
    Danielle McNally, InStyle, 28 May 2026
  • Back on land, rent a motorbike for a day or two of exploring the island.
    Marianna Cerini, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 July 2019
  • An employee of his racing team gave him a motorbike to ride to the team’s tent.
    Tom Fitzgerald, SFChronicle.com, 26 July 2019
  • These two gangs control most of the motorbike and taxi ranks in the capital.
    Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Members of a new middle class are rushing out to buy their first fridges and motorbikes.
    The Economist, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Two barns on the property serve as garages, with a lift and loft storage for motorbikes.
    Emma Kate Fittes, Indianapolis Star, 14 July 2017
  • The robbery suspects fled on motorbikes, police said at the time of the heist.
    Tom Soufi Burridge, ABC News, 10 Dec. 2025
  • On a recent morning, at least a dozen motorbikes topple over in the course of about two hours.
    Eli Meixler / Phnom Penh, Time, 4 June 2018
  • Many are trying to leave the area with their personal items by car, motorbike or on foot.
    Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Steedman followed the match on his phone while riding home from work on his motorbike.
    Miami Herald, 19 June 2026
  • Racing greyhounds and motorbikes around the edge of the pitch would no longer suffice.
    Matt Slater, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
  • The fire also burned seven cars and more than a dozen motorbikes parked on the ground floor of the building.
    Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2019
  • And so there could be chickens or motorbikes or things running around outside.
    AFAR Media, 30 May 2026
  • The clip opens with Bieber racing through the streets on a motorbike, with police on his tail.
    Heran Mamo, Billboard, 5 Mar. 2021
  • The impact caused the driver to be ejected from the motorbike.
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The idea of the cover was a motorbike flying over the journalists in a bar.
    Ralph Steadman, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Thieves on foot or on motorbikes snatch cellphones from incautious tourists.
    Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025

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