rockaway

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Recent Examples of rockaway The show culminated with Jon shouting out a string of moves — the A-Town stomp, the muscle, the thunder clap, the rockaway — as more dancers flooded the stage. Jason Lamphier, EW.com, 12 Feb. 2024 Beres Hammond: The reggae star comes to rockaway as part of his Never Ending Tour. Trevor Fraser, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Aug. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rockaway
Noun
  • When Tran rang it, Daisy and Kelsey pulled up in a surrey.
    Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2024
  • The clanging warning that a family in a four-wheel surrey pedicab is rolling up behind you.
    Tim Ebner, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
Noun
  • Stanhope next week: Doug Stanhope headlines the Cleveland Improv also on Thursday, June 29.
    Michael K. McIntyre, cleveland.com, 22 June 2017
Noun
  • Acceptable modes of transit include a 1969 Mini Cooper, any model of Range Rover that Prince Philip once drove, or a hackney carriage.
    Simon Webster, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Feinberg is still driving under the same hackney carriage medallion that he was issued in 1975, according to police.
    Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2018
Noun
  • Delivery workers and cab and ride hailing drivers work long hours just to get by, while corporate platforms skim profits from every ride.
    Phara Souffrant Forrest, New York Daily News, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Rupert told Diller in a cab on the way to Kluge’s apartment.
    Gabriel Sherman, HollywoodReporter, 3 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The royal couple was transported to the senate in the grandest of royal ways: in a landau carriage escorted by a troupe from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Musical Ride in their bright red tunics.
    Simon Perry, People.com, 27 May 2025
  • It's also understood that King Charles, 75, will attend Trooping the Colour amid his own cancer treatment, and conduct the review while seated in an Ascot landau carriage alongside Queen Camilla.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 30 May 2024
Noun
  • Hire a tonga and allow your tongawallah to guide you to Lucknow’s best spots.
    Condé Nast Traveller, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The diffuse forms of the Berlin Cathedral, Brandenburg Gate, and Leipziger Platz are still unmistakable against a foreground of pedestrians in modern dress, hackney coaches, and other symbols of the Industrial Revolution.
    The Editors of ARTnews, ARTnews.com, 1 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • But the main focus of the chariot race, and of all television really, is what’s happening on the actors’ faces.
    Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Meanwhile, back at camp, King Tantalus is more focused on resuming the chariot races than fighting the monsters.
    Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026

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“Rockaway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rockaway. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.

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