oxcart

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of oxcart The resort also offers cooking and mixology classes, bird-watching and night frog walks, coffee and wine tastings, tree planting, and traditional oxcart painting classes. Devorah Lev-Tov, AFAR Media, 26 Aug. 2025 Luckily for the pair, a man in an oxcart soon passed. Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 3 Jan. 2025 Peer into the daily lives of early German Texans The days of freighters and oxcarts making their arduous way across Texas and Mexico from Indianola ended in 1860 when the San Antonio and Mexican Gulf Railroad and the Indianola Railroad joined up in Victoria. Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 19 Mar. 2024 Its founder, Henderson Lewelling, brought his fruit trees and his family overland by oxcart from Iowa. John McPhee, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022 The looters stole a third object from the same site — a Skanda figure sitting on a peacock — transported it by oxcart to the border with Thailand and sold it for about $600. Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2021 The geophysicists who’d loaned us the instrument were begging us to bring them back an oxcart and a pair of oxen, says Sheets. Mary Roach, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for oxcart
Noun
  • The situation is especially fraught for the nation’s 75,000 dray operators and other foot soldiers of the supply chain.
    Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2022
  • While bikes are permitted, the most efficient way to deliver packages are through dray wagon horse carriages.
    Dixita Limbachia, Detroit Free Press, 13 Aug. 2019
Noun
  • Subaru’s decision to build the STI on the Impreza’s five-door wagonette body style rather than the sedan is easy to question, but ultimately tough to fault.
    Matthew Phenix, WIRED, 14 Jan. 2008
Noun
  • My 10-year-old even worked up the nerve to follow her sister down Jack Rabbit Alley, a run with small bumps, wagons, and teepees to ski through.
    Grace Bastidas, Parents, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Participate in a logsawing contest and win the infamous wagon of cheer.
    Caroline Ritzie, Cincinnati Enquirer, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Almost all its gasoline is imported, making gas expensive and scarce; in many parts of the countryside, bicycles and horse carts have supplanted cars.
    Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • These Lululemon fall essentials are selling fast, so don’t wait too long to add them to your cart.
    Nicol Natale, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2025

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“Oxcart.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oxcart. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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