sunroof
Americannoun
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sunroofs
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noun
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Wearing her trademark white T-shirt and blue jeans, she leaned through the sunroof of a vehicle to wave to the crowds and shake hands with supporters.
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026
The descriptions of those incidents listed in a federal database are harrowing: A Kia minivan’s sunroof spontaneously exploded on a Wisconsin highway.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
It is stuffed to the sunroof with speakers and screens, and it’s a Sony.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026
The powered, dark-tinted rear window, dual-panel sunroof, cargo bed tonneau and other status-y upsells added $21,085 to the tribute.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
At that vague hour between dark and dawn, the sunroof of the Amazon was deserted.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
David Smith, a former design manager at General Motors, said sunroofs present an engineering challenge: cutting a hole out of a car’s roof while maintaining the vehicle’s stability and integrity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Overall, Ford recalled 38,714 Mach-Es in North America and Europe for improperly bonded windshields and sunroofs.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 27, 2021
The faithful waved palm branches through barely cracked windows and sunroofs, recalling the procession welcoming Jesus into Jerusalem just before his crucifixion that’s celebrated on Palm Sunday.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 7, 2020
One company, T-Ink, has developed inks so robust that circuits, sensors and switches can be printed on flat plastic and then molded into three-dimensional components that control overhead lights and sunroofs in cars.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2012
Grilles and wheels were replaced with better-looking versions and stereos and sunroofs were added.
From BBC ● May 10, 2010
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