rickshaw

variants also ricksha

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of rickshaw Ride on rickshaws, witness terra-cotta temples, visit villages, and dine alongside Gangetic dolphins. Jeri Clausing, AFAR Media, 26 Feb. 2025 Out on the promenade, nostalgic cyclo bike rickshaws waited for drivers and riders. Jia H. Jung, Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2025 Dozens of families quit their homes in Tel Al-Sultan heading northward to Khan Younis, some on foot, while others carried their belongings and children on donkey carts and rickshaws. Nidal Al-Mughrabi, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2025 Bumped and bustled on scruffy buses, crowded trains and narrow rickshaws. Laura Manske, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for rickshaw
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rickshaw
Noun
  • Flair built his reputation on limousine rides and midnight blade jobs, Bruno Sammartino carried the belt like a civic honor, and Steve Austin smashed beers on his head and then drank them on the top rope.
    Oliver Bateman, The Washington Examiner, 30 May 2025
  • Attendees took a limousine ride downtown, which was followed by family, friends and St. Jude staff greeting them at the Domino’s Event Center.
    Jillian Frankel, People.com, 28 May 2025
Noun
  • From there, take a private water taxi or a vaporetto (public boat) straight to the Grand Canal. 9.
    Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 1 June 2025
  • Or take the water taxi, at City Dock, a focal point of downtown.
    Charles Babington, New York Times, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • The measure also includes small changes to Houston's pedicab and jitney industries.
    Jay R. Jordan, Chron, 17 May 2022
  • Keelboats, jitney cars, horseless carriages, street cars, a railroad train, fire engine, skyway and even the Adm. Joe Fowler Sternwheeler on the Rivers of America all serve as people-movers.
    Roger Simmons, orlandosentinel.com, 1 Oct. 2021
Noun
  • After 15 days, the taxi drivers struck a deal with officials to help rescue the thousands of workers from their crushing loans.
    Time, Time, 23 June 2025
  • Tencent runs China’s biggest messaging app called WeChat, which integrates features like payments and the ability to hail taxis or order food.
    Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • And Lyft is slated to launch its own self-driving cab service in Dallas, Texas, sometime in 2026.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 23 June 2025
  • Musk appears to be on the verge of making his robotaxi vision a reality with a test run of a small squad of self-driving cabs in Austin, Texas, that began Sunday.
    Bernard Condon, Fortune, 22 June 2025

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“Rickshaw.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rickshaw. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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