town car
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of town car
First recorded in 1915–20
Example Sentences
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I think he’s in a limo or town car or something, but he’s being driven and he sees a tree with oranges growing on it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2022
Conde’s masks seem to be the 2020 equivalent of getting a town car home—just stupider.
From Slate ● Apr. 14, 2020
She waved off the producer’s offer of a town car to walk to the theater from her residential hotel on the Upper West Side.
From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2019
He leaped out of a waiting town car and fled down Fifty-first Street.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 13, 2018
“You can drop me off at my apartment,” I tell Maxwell, the driver of the town car Elsie’s guardian sent for her.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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