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Recent Examples of flivverEight thousand fans could fit in the bleachers and grandstands, with, as a novelty, room for people in 150 cars to watch the game from their flivvers.—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2023 In the background are two flivvers, which brought them there over bouncy roads.—Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 30 Aug. 2019 Leader of the campaign is a white man, the county health officer, a former Georgia farm boy who drove a flivver through fields of mud, 36 miles a day to medical school.—Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 25 July 2017
There, beside the shiplike hulk of the Basilica of San Petronio—which is a work in progress, the foundation stone having been laid in 1390, and which somebody really should get around to finishing one of these days—was a vast white screen.
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Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
Like the port-holes of a hulk, Human spiders spin and spin,
Backward down their threads so thin
Dropping, each a hempen bulk.
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