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woody

noun

variants or woodie

Definition of woody

as in sports car

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Recent Examples of woody Warm and woody, Bounty Hunter is another offering from The Mandalorian and Grogu collab. — Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 23 July 2026 That bite and raw intensity produce some of the album’s standout moments, transmuting jungle’s physicality across a wide emotional range with poetic verve and Nia’s woody, vulnerable, yet strident timbre. — Will Pritchard, Pitchfork, 20 July 2026 Bittersweet Nightshade Bittersweet nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) is a woody weed in the nightshade family, a family of plants notorious for its toxicity. — David Beaulieu, The Spruce, 17 July 2026 As a fire sign, you may be drawn to scents with smoky or woody facets. — Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 14 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for woody

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Noun

Suspended from wires overhead, a sports car was poised as if racing around a Möbius strip, meant to evoke the unending pursuit of improvement.

— Evan Osnos, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
That’s the all-important question every sports car fan is asking about Mazda’s most celebrated car.

— Peter Lyon, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026

Definition of sports car

Noun

From the start of deliveries in the spring through June, Subaru moved 2,436 examples of the wagon, while Toyota sold 554 units.

— Adam Ismail, The Drive, 6 Aug. 2026
From there, Nyugen and her volunteers split up into two teams before dragging the wagons along the streets of Chinatown.

— Melody Xu, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of wagon

Noun

Officers with the Olathe Police Department were called to the area of West 159th Street and South Lone Elm Road upon reports of a head-on collision between a white SUV and a dump truck, according to a news release from Sgt.

— Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 1 Aug. 2026
Police said the group went inside, took out an ATM, then fled in a white SUV, leaving the black SUV behind.

— Elyssa Kaufman, CBS News, 31 July 2026

Definition of SUV

Noun

Sheriff's deputies then found Pelosi's brown convertible nearby with damage to the front-right side, which was consistent with damage found on the parked car.

— Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 18 July 2026
Deputies later found a California Highway Patrol vehicle parked behind Pelosi’s convertible.

— Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 17 July 2026

Definition of convertible

Noun

But each vehicle is unique — an all-purpose sedan (station wagon), a two-door convertible and the four-door Town Car Phaeton.

— James Raia, Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2026
My family loved to spin yarns and tell stories, whether at the dinner table or on long drives in the station wagon and the backward-facing trundle seat.

— Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026

Definition of station wagon

Noun

Despite overcoming early battery recalls to post record sales figures, GM retired the hatchback to retool its factory for electric trucks and sunset its aging battery platform.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Aug. 2026
In Irkutsk, Russia, a man is seen leaning into the open window of a hatchback and repeatedly hitting another motorist.

— Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026

Definition of hatchback

Noun

The father and children were last seen in a 2011 Black Lincoln town car with the California license plate SOLOYST.

— Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 26 July 2026
The app, called Cherry, lasted only a year, but Sacks did better with another early-stage investment in a company that sent a town car to pick you up.

— George Packer, The Atlantic, 4 May 2026

Definition of town car

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