Rolls-Royce
/ (ˌrəʊlzˈrɔɪs) /
Also called (informal): Rolls a make of very high-quality, luxurious, and prestigious British car. The Rolls-Royce company is no longer British-owned
anything considered to be the very best of its kind
Origin of Rolls-Royce
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How to use Rolls-Royce in a sentence
Rolls Royce Motor Cars is a subsidiary of BMW, who make the engines.
He claimed that his work as Genie was a favor to company, which he considered the “Rolls-Royce of animation.”
The Genie Is Free: Robin Williams's Complicated Relationship With Disney | Kevin Fallon | August 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHowever in that case the fault was in the Rolls Royce engines, not the airplane, and was promptly fixed.
The Worst Place in the World for MH370 to Go Missing | Clive Irving | April 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd when it comes to liability litigation, as inevitably it will, Rolls Royce would seem to be off the hook.
On the 777 the electrical power for all of its mechanical and life support systems is drawn from its two Rolls Royce engines.
As a result no American-built Rolls-Royce engine was ever made.
America's Munitions 1917-1918 | Benedict CrowellThere stood a handsome Rolls-Royce, the facsimile of the one from which we had just alighted.
Berry And Co. | Dornford YatesThis is altogether too much for the owner of the Rolls-Royce.
Thumbwood appeared, I gave him full instructions, and heard the Rolls-Royce start below.
The Air Pirate | Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger GullKarslake doubled nimbly across the street to the only vehicle in sight, an impressive Rolls-Royce town-car.
Red Masquerade | Louis Joseph Vance
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