How to Use streetcar in a Sentence

streetcar

noun

• Gone are the days when the No. 19 streetcar clanged up and down Harford Road.
  — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 19 Aug. 2021
• By the 1950s and the end of streetcar service, the terminal was used for busses.
  — The Enquirer, 29 Aug. 2022
• And there's even been talk about adding new streetcar routes.
  — The Enquirer, 18 Feb. 2024
• Some of the streets still have cobblestone and the remains of streetcar tracks.
  — Noreen Malone, New York Times, 1 June 2023
• Due to Sunday's races running through the course of the streetcar, the Q-Line will not travel the full length of the tracks.
  — Alanna Williams, Detroit Free Press, 15 Oct. 2021
• The city had considered adding a new trail or streetcar route atop the piers.
  — Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2022
• The Past Decades ago, L.A. car commuters shared space with streetcars.
  — Curbed, 29 Nov. 2023
• There are bike lanes, too, and the Muni’s J-Church streetcar line runs right down the middle.
  — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Sep. 2021
• The surrealists used to choose a Paris streetcar at random, ride to the end of the line and then walk around.
  — Alison Gopnik, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2022
• The city plans to create 35 kiosks total, many at streetcar stops.
  — Margaret Cahill, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2021
• Traffic, horns, people rushing around us, the clunk of tires over the streetcar tracks.
  — USA Today, 26 June 2023
• Who killed the Red Cars, once the grandest electric streetcar system in the nation?
  — Patt Morrison Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2021
• Themed drinks, photo booth, food trucks and ride streetcar to show.
  — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 25 June 2023
• Bob and Ed met at a San Francisco streetcar stop in 1970.
  — Daniel Felsenthal, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2024
• Tours are by bus or streetcar or on foot and range from $30 to $70 per person, plus taxes and fees.
  — Elaine Rewolinski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Aug. 2021
• The city rolled past: Muni buses, the funky old streetcars, tourists with cameras.
  — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Apr. 2023
• But not in a romantic way, like a streetcar or a Ferris wheel.
  — Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2022
• The current voice on the streetcar is Cincinnati native and 98 Degrees singer Nick Lachey.
  — Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 9 Sep. 2021
• At first, police chased tips about a car following the streetcar that night.
  — Star Tribune, 24 July 2021
• That's the only explored route that would take streetcar deep into west Mesa.
  — Joshua Bowling, The Arizona Republic, 14 Dec. 2021
• When the QLine streetcar first arrived in Detroit in 2017, it was seen as a new future of mass transit in a city where cars are king.
  — Camille Squires, Quartz, 17 Aug. 2021
• On Friday, a crash in Milwaukee’s downtown killed a 40-year-old passenger of a car that struck the handrail of the streetcar.
  — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 18 July 2022
• The company couldn’t keep up with the maintenance, so in April 1925 Sherman announced the end of the streetcar service.
  — Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 24 Sep. 2021
• Milwaukee's streetcar system came to a standstill, unable to get past the cars buried in snow.
  — Chris Foran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Jan. 2022
• And a crash in Milwaukee’s downtown that killed a 40-year-old passenger of a car that struck a handrail at a station for The Hop streetcar.
  — Steven Martinez, Journal Sentinel, 27 July 2022
• An extension of the city’s streetcar line to just west of the stadium was part of the plan, but due to delays that service could be as much as two years away.
  — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 22 Feb. 2024
• The streetcars were not the only example of his showmanship.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 29 May 2023
• The release noted that the streetcar is averaging about 1,100 riders each day over the last two months.
  — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 14 Dec. 2021
• The couple already have an Instagram account for the streetcar and their project.
  — Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Mar. 2023
• Sparks off a passing streetcar had ignited a large pocket of natural gas trapped between the roof of the tunnel and the street above.
  — Marylou Tousignant, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024