pram

Definition of pramnext
chiefly British
as in buggy
a small four-wheeled vehicle designed for pushing a baby around in like other trendy Notting Hill couples, they bought a fancy pram for the first baby

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Recent Examples of pram Step inside the taproom, and an original Optimist pram boat hanging from the ceiling speaks to the coastal side of Dunedin’s story. Katie Strasberg Rousso, Southern Living, 12 July 2025 This build comes with 1,048 pieces to create the beloved alien, his hover pram, and accessories like a Sorgan frog, shifter knob, and a cookie for Grogu to hold. Mia Huelsbeck, People.com, 5 July 2025 One person suggested Cousins return to the spot on a daily basis and try to strike up a relationship with the septuagenarian pushing the pram. Matthew Carey, Deadline, 11 May 2025 No trace of the 10-foot pram used by Ralph has ever been found. Robert E. Houle, Outdoor Life, 19 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pram
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Noun
  • Barns, open pastures, horses and buggies, and small towns define this stretch of Amish Country, offering a quiet change from the busy cities left behind.
    Abby Price, Travel + Leisure, 1 Feb. 2026
  • In Churchill, the trash sites have all been bear-proofed (enclosed so the animals can’t graze among the garbage), but not so in Arviat, where Inuit enforcers show up in their buggies to honk loudly and chase the bears away from open-air landfills.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 1 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • It is rolled out to show how Washington and London strangled Iranian democracy in its crib, proving that foreign powers cannot be trusted and that the Islamic Republic is, at worst, a necessary evil.
    Bobby Ghosh, Time, 5 Mar. 2026
  • My friend was in course of opening up his country house unassisted, and after a fatiguing day discovered that the only practical bed was a child’s affair— long enough but scarcely wider than a crib.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Parents arrive with younger siblings in pushchairs and head out to watch the session that is due to start in 10 minutes.
    Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 4 July 2025
  • Correspondent Serna Altschul looks at the history of strollers, prams and pushchairs, and at the designs and aesthetics of today's super-smooth strollers.
    David Morgan, CBS News, 18 May 2024
Noun
  • With the official arrival of spring next week, a new section of trail in Clear Creek Canyon featuring soaring rock walls and cascading rapids is beckoning Front Range runners, cyclists, walkers and families with baby strollers.
    John Meyer, Denver Post, 11 Mar. 2026
  • In the final film, the stroller scene itself is not much longer than the snippet in the trailer.
    Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 10 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Ten years ago, there were no baby carriages downtown.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Even on a weekday, three mothers with baby carriages comprise a formidable flotilla in a place such as this.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 23 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Universal drink caddies that attach to the handles of suitcases and baby buggies.
    Theresa Holland, Travel + Leisure, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Some of the parade highlights will include 14 pipe and drum marching bands, students from Irish dance schools performing, an appearance by Consulate General of Ireland Council Kevin Byrne and the original baby buggy parade float from the first parade in 1979.
    Jeff Vorva, chicagotribune.com, 11 Mar. 2022
Noun
  • In a 1923 address to the British Royal Society of the Arts, one Samuel Sewell chided his fellow-researchers for having failed to research the history of a device as common and useful as the ubiquitous perambulator, or pram.
    Peter C. Baker, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2022
  • One perambulator holding big packages and a sleeping red-haired baby clutching the strings of two round, red balloons.
    Robert Richardson, Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2022

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“Pram.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pram. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.

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