carriages

plural of carriage

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of carriages The city’s government started restricting when and where horse carriages could operate in the 1980s, and legislation to ban the industry was first announced in 2008. — Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 14 Oct. 2026 Philadelphia, Chicago, San Antonio, Paris and London have already moved on from carriages. — Al Sharpton, New York Daily News, 14 Oct. 2026 The onboard experience Boarding begins at Platform 2, where Etihad Rail staff guide passengers to the correct carriages. — Sophia Dyer, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2026 At the time, a bill to ban carriages was before the City Council, but these tragedies bolstered its political momentum. — Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2026 Cars mix with horse-and-buggy carriages on the road, many coming and going from the weekly Sale Day — a market spread over 10 acres with livestock, fruits and vegetables, flowers and other goods for available to purchase. — Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2026 The overnight jaunt begins at Paris Gare d’Austerlitz station, where guests board the historic midnight-blue carriages from the 1920s and ‘30s. — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 6 Oct. 2026 The drone strike targeted a railway station in the Novovodolazka community and sparked a fire in two carriages of the suburban train. — Samya Kullab, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026 French rail manufacturer Alstom also won a $580 million contract to provide metro carriages for Riyadh. — Inzamam Rashid, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for carriages
Noun
  • Its influence eventually spread far beyond carts and chariots.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 16 Aug. 2026
  • The 5,398 officially noted burial objects included ceremonial figurines, chariots, pieces of jewelry and artwork, and even piles of food.
    — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 12 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • The future of data center opposition With Pennsylvania’s gubernatorial election coming up next month, candidates’ stances on data center development could further scramble traditional partisan divides.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2026
  • Governments around the world are hardening their AI stances as more agentic hacks breach critical systems.
    — J.D. Capelouto, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • The company also has experience running trucks commercially with empty cabs.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2026
  • There are glistening construction workers and disembodied skirts blowing upwards from the convected wind of subway grates and cabs again, a heat-wave dream loop.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Mogwai, who would make their debut the year after Beat was released and with whom Bowery Electric would share a bill, would crouch in similarly unassuming and tense postures and use them to spring out and scare the bejeezus out of people.
    — Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 4 Oct. 2026
  • Alice and Gemma really don’t seem to get along, and neither seems inclined to back down from their hostile postures.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • But the spacecraft sets were too elaborate to recreate onboard, so Gosling performed on wire rigs, including a rotating harness.
    — Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Up until now, these have been confined to Linux systems and clusters, beefy desktop rigs, and servers that offer private compute in the cloud.
    — Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 15 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • The survey does not isolate young men or measure political attitudes.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Those figures describe guest attitudes at the time, not necessarily current preferences.
    — Ashley Lynch, Kansas City Star, 16 Oct. 2026

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“Carriages.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carriages. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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