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Meanings of streetcar in English

Portuguese
trole
Catalan
tramvia
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A wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity.

trole
Usage of streetcar in English
1
Revitalizing the New Orleans streetcar system has been a slow, arduous process.
Reuters
2
The conductor adds that bus and streetcar services have also been suspended.
Number9Dream
3
I was a bit late and had to run for the streetcar.
The stranger
4
Simon stood apart from them, waiting in the cold for the streetcar.
The saint of dragons
5
Let's have a delegation to paint every streetcar in the next hour.
The Illustrated Man
6
Behind him the streetcar tore out of the fog with a clang.
The saint of dragons
7
You could step in front of a streetcar tomorrow, his mother said.
American empire: blood and iron
8
Everyone must stand in line to get into a streetcar or a bus.
A Russian Journal
9
MANCHESTER's tram system is about to be augmented by a streetcar named Desire.
The Irish Times
10
A block away, there came the roar of the passing streetcar.
Angel time: the songs of the seraphim
11
Ahead, down the street, I saw a streetcar cross a bridge.
A Farewell to Arms
12
A diminutive streetcar drawn by mules with jingling bells passed now and then.
Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras / Being the Rand...
13
So I caught the streetcar that goes down to the harbor.
The stranger
14
If elected, he'd promised, he'd put a pretty girl hostess on every streetcar.
The family: the secret fundamentalism at the heart of american p...
15
In 1926, he got out a volume on the collection of streetcar transfers.
The new yorker
16
I contemplated lugging it onto the twenty-four-hour streetcar that ran along Queen Street.
Sister Mine
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