surrey

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Recent Examples of surrey 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 Karen delighted in a ride on a surrey cycle pedaled by Erik and his girlfriend, Renee Aguilar. Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2021 Only instead of a surrey with a fringe on the top, there’s an ice cream stand and a small store that sells fresh produce and a restaurant that serves the freshest foods. BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2021 The actual surrey with the fringe on top shown in the movie is on display at Jerome State Historic Park. Roger Naylor, azcentral, 12 Dec. 2019 Bici Pincio rentals, just inside the park entrance, offered the ideal solution for a family of five: the surrey-style Risciò Max ($22 first hour, other bikes from $4.50). Shelly Rivoli, latimes.com, 11 July 2019 Old-time Pearlanders wrote of Zychlinski, rumored to be a Polish nobleman, traveling the dirt streets of Pearland in a fancy surrey pulled by a pair of shiny black, high stepping horses. Jaimy Jones, Houston Chronicle, 19 June 2018 Bike rentals: cruisers, tandems, choppers, quad sports, deuce coupes, four-wheel surrey bikes. The Courier-Journal, 26 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for surrey
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
  • Stanhope next week: Doug Stanhope headlines the Cleveland Improv also on Thursday, June 29.
    Michael K. McIntyre, cleveland.com, 22 June 2017
Noun
  • Sports gambling scandals stretch back to chariot racing days.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
  • High jinks ensue, including a hilarious scene in the Big Game with a scampering dog and a chariot chase.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025
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
  • The sheriff said the road where the crash took place, Fillmore County Road 1, is shared by buggies and has signs warning drivers of the slow traffic, so drivers must be extra careful.
    Dennis Romero, NBC news, 18 Oct. 2025
  • If Max goes down because an update is buggy, servers break, or someone launches a cyberattack, the app could be offline for some period—in this case, potentially halting millions of bank payments, messages, and identity-verification attempts through the app.
    Justin Sherman, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Among these is the Inn at Mattei’s Tavern, a historic stagecoach stop (now an Auberge Collection resort) that hosted Hollywood stars including Reagan and Clark Gable.
    Justin Goldman, AFAR Media, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The property was owned in the 1800s by one of the early Big Sur settler families, the Pfeiffers, who operated a lodge and cabins for visitors who came by stagecoach.
    Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2025
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
  • 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

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“Surrey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surrey. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.

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