rickshaw

variants also ricksha

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of rickshaw Outside, life bustles with the familiar sounds of rickshaws and friendly neighborhood chatter. Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for rickshaw
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rickshaw
Noun
  • Travel expense reports from 2024 show board members regularly used limousine services to go to and from the airport when traveling on the district’s dime, and have indulged in steak dinners sometimes for $300 a person on one meal.
    Olivia Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 28 July 2025
  • From custom designer fits to sleek limousines and over-the-top entrances, teens are taking prom to A-list levels.
    Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 3 June 2025
Noun
  • My personal favorite way to get around, though, is the Yokohama Sea Bass water taxi.
    Kim Kay, Travel + Leisure, 20 July 2025
  • Officials will explore re-upping the water taxi as well as other options to help people cross the river, according to the release.
    Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 15 July 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
  • Over the next five years, taxi customers plummeted by 90 percent.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 29 July 2025
  • The pay-offs for the England parents who doubled as their daughters’ taxi drivers, chefs, psychologists, nutritionists, coaches and kit launderers defy comprehension.
    Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 26 July 2025
Noun
  • In photos taken from the shoot, Roan — similar to the song’s artwork — sported absurdly long, Rapunzel-style hair while singing atop a fire escape and dragging behind a taxi cab.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 28 July 2025
  • The cab cars, passenger cars with controls to pull the train from the opposite end of the locomotive, would be purchased at $5.6 million each, according to the report.
    Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 July 2025

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“Rickshaw.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rickshaw. Accessed 3 Aug. 2025.

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