stagecoach

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Recent Examples of stagecoach Missouri Town’s many structures were selected to provide a comprehensive view of the time period and include homes, businesses, a church, livery stable, school, tavern/inn, stagecoach stop, outhouse and smokehouse. Janice Phelan, Kansas City Star, 16 July 2025 Visitors often spent a week or more traveling by stagecoach or train to reach the resort. Brittany Anas, Denver Post, 9 July 2025 Ruby Miller said that Brad will have a chance to add his own twist to the menu at Carlo & Johnny, which opened in 2001 and is housed in a historic mansion that was once a speakeasy and a stagecoach stop. Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025 Whereas oxen carts, wagons and stagecoaches once made travel of people or goods to and from Austin from anywhere else a discouraging task on muddy or dusty roads, suddenly the world waited at the city's front door. Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for stagecoach
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stagecoach
Noun
  • Instead, the bare-bones Lancia, with its buckboard-short 85.8-inch wheelbase, iffy fiberglass bodywork and minimalist cockpit, was aimed squarely at rally competition.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 16 Aug. 2021
  • The suspension mods make the Dinan drive hard and thrashy, stiff as a Bavarian buckboard.
    Dan Neil, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2017
Noun
  • Then, there’s the one about the two Asian guys who are harnessed to a chariot and made to pull it along, like horses, with bits in their mouths, while this other Asian guy, holding the reins, lashes them with a whip.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • One such example can be found in the Latin mythological text Fabulae, in which the sisters of Phaethon are transformed into poplar trees as punishment for yoking his chariot without their father’s permission.
    Ellen Walker, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The actor played Louie De Palma, head dispatcher of the Sunshine Cab Company and supervisor to the cab drivers, on the show.
    Victoria Edel, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The convertible lounge at the front of the van serves as the second room, combining the three-seat rear bench, two cab swivel seats and removable dining table into a proper dining space.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • If Austen had ever conceived one of her novels as a Regency Bachelorette, with the suitors driving up in barouches, the unmarried heroine would have ordered them all to turn around and go home.
    Tom Gliatto, People.com, 19 July 2025
  • Guests arriving by train were met and returned to the station by an open barouche, a six-horse tallyho that brought them to the three-story-high wooden structure with a roof of gray-red-peach bottom slate, that was modeled after Swiss Alpine hotels.
    Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 11 July 2023
Noun
  • Under the tutelage of head coach Dawn Sullivan since 2023, the Tigers (3-1) have seen a resurgence in volleyball.
    Brady Shanahan, Kansas City Star, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Lalas is calling for head coach Mauricio Pochettino's head, and that the team needs a new coach and direction.
    Michael Lewis, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Such vehicles were nothing new: Chariots came from the Romans, the curricle chair applied to royalty, and the French post chaise became the one-horse shay.
    Brenda Yenke, cleveland.com, 7 Feb. 2018
Noun
  • Until the last couple of episodes, everything appears to be ripping along like a brand-new two-horse phaeton on a bright spring day.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 13 June 2024
  • An open touring car, a phaeton conveyed the essence of speed and performance, and was built for real sporting types.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 26 Sep. 2022
Noun
  • The buggy, which was pulling an unoccupied buggy, was struck from behind by an eastbound 2018 International tractor-trailer, the sheriff's office said.
    Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The group of cousins has a blast together, playing and riding little kid-sized buggies around.
    Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 26 Aug. 2025

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“Stagecoach.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stagecoach. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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