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Meanings of armoured car in English

Portuguese
auto-metralhadora
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A military combat vehicle on wheels with light armor (and usually a machine gun)

auto-metralhadora
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Examples for "armored car"
Examples for "armored car"
1
There are generally from twenty to fifty soldiers in each armored car.
Cuba in War Time
2
An American armored car, as ungainly as a dinosaur, turned a corner.
The forever war
3
Lana leaned back sharply as the armored car rolled into the wadi.
Countdown: The Liberators-ARC
4
The .50 caliber subcal wasn't nearly enough to rock the armored car.
Countdown: The Liberators-ARC
5
But the chauffeur-commander of the armored car made it most difficult.
The Lost Road
Usage of armoured car in English
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Eight of us are crammed in the back of an armoured car.
The Guardian
2
An excavator was hotwired and turned into a sort of armoured car.
The Guardian
3
It destroyed their armoured car and left a massive crater in the road.
The Irish Times
4
At last an armoured car came along and pulled the automobile onto the road.
Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front
5
He met an armoured car on Borrowdale Brooke, a side road leading to Mugabe's house.
Reuters
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Policemen and gendarmes in an armoured car were deployed to the port on Monday afternoon.
Reuters
7
There comes an armoured car with a swaying guntower.
Iron Council
8
But," he said sadly, "this is a field ambulance, not an armoured car."
The Romantic
9
Each little fort has a large machine-gun pointed at the road and a mobile armoured car.
The Irish Times
10
It was like being in an armoured car.
Kennedy's brain
11
Or from an armoured car, or turret?
Frenzied Fiction
12
Amidst the ensuing mayhem, former Sergeant McBride's armoured car unit was able to drive right through enemy lines.
Reuters
13
He pointed to the armoured car.
The apocalypse reader
14
As we drove away in an armoured car, they said they had been assigned to me for my protection.
The Guardian
15
If there is one place where one may hope for excitement, it is in an armoured car with a mitrailleuse.
A Surgeon in Belgium
16
And the armoured car.
Reuters
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