cable car
noun
: a vehicle moved by an endless cable:
a
: one suspended from an overhead cable
b
: one that moves along tracks
Examples of cable car in a Sentence
The skiers took a cable car to the top of the mountain.
Tourists packed the cable cars on the hilly streets of San Francisco.
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Prices from $1,677 a night per suite, which includes meals and most beverages, mountain cable car tickets, ski passes, some hotel activities, winter sports equipment and use of the pools and saunas.
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Stephanie Rosenbloom, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
Plus, to keep the festivities accessible, buses and cable cars are free on New Year’s Eve.
—Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
Reaching the observatory’s sphere requires a slow trip by cable car, which crawls at about 4 mph down a long, sloping tunnel carved into the granite.
—Eric Baculinao, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2024
However, no trip to this corner of the French Alps is complete without a jaw-dropping ride on the Aiguille du Midi cable car, which offers sweeping views and ferries passengers to the doorstep of Mont Blanc, the tallest mountain in Western Europe at 15,777 feet.
—Kelley Manley, Travel + Leisure, 6 Oct. 2024
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Stephanie Rosenbloom, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
Plus, to keep the festivities accessible, buses and cable cars are free on New Year’s Eve.
—Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
Reaching the observatory’s sphere requires a slow trip by cable car, which crawls at about 4 mph down a long, sloping tunnel carved into the granite.
—Eric Baculinao, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2024
However, no trip to this corner of the French Alps is complete without a jaw-dropping ride on the Aiguille du Midi cable car, which offers sweeping views and ferries passengers to the doorstep of Mont Blanc, the tallest mountain in Western Europe at 15,777 feet.
—Kelley Manley, Travel + Leisure, 6 Oct. 2024
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“Cable car.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cable%20car. Accessed 8 Jan. 2025.
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