Example Sentences

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Many auto loads arrived with a shout and claimants leaped from the tonneaus, falling into line almost before the vehicles had stopped.

From The Conquest The Story of a Negro Pioneer by Micheaux, Oscar

Rocks, small stones and dirt flew all around them, striking with loud noises the hoods and other metal parts of the automobiles, and even landing in the tonneaus of the larger cars.

From The Rover Boys on a Tour or Last Days at Brill College by Stratemeyer, Edward

Link, in his own occasional trudges along this bit of state road, had often seen costly dogs in the tonneaus of passing cars.

From His Dog by Terhune, Albert Payson

Fingers had pointed, hundreds of times, to kennels or to the open doorways or to canoe-bottoms or to car tonneaus or to whatsoever spot the dog in question was desired to betake himself.

From Lad: A Dog by Terhune, Albert Payson

Now the front wheels overlapped the rear ones of the green machine—now they were at the side door of the tonneau—now the two tonneaus were even!

From Larry Dexter's Great Search or, The Hunt for the Missing Millionaire by Garis, Howard Roger