trolleybus

/ ˈtrɒlɪˌbʌs /

noun

1. an electrically driven public-transport vehicle that does not run on rails but takes its power from an overhead wire through a trolley

Example Sentences

Costing £250m, it was substantially cheaper than Supertram but critics said it lacked ambition, while others branded it a costly white elephant, noting that nowhere else in the UK had built a new trolleybus line.

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Social media videos showed a trolleybus which was reportedly passing near the dam and caught fire after a missile strike.

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Russian forces also shelled the southern city of Kherson, killing a policeman and wounding two civilians on a trolleybus, the head of the city's military administration said.

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Most of the debris fell on open ground, he added, but some damaged cars and trolleybus cables.

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Four other people were wounded in the first shelling attack, which also hit a trolleybus, the prosecutor general’s office said.

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