soft-top

noun

informal
: a car with a roof made of thick fabric that can be lowered or removed : a convertible

Examples of soft-top in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Students are taken out to the water on soft-top surfboards, which are safer and more cushioned and stable than hard-top surfboards – that can be adapted to their abilities. Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 26 May 2024 The car comes with a retractable soft-top, although no pictures have been made available, that can be deployed in around 20 seconds at speeds of up to 30 mph. Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 7 May 2024 Hardtop coupe and soft-top convertible body styles are offered. James Raia, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2024 The first is the wide-scale production of cheap soft-top surfboards, which are floaty enough to catch pretty much every mushy wave that rolls through. Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2024 There is, of course, a fabric soft-top for when the weather takes a turn for the worse. Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 1 Mar. 2024 Its hard-to-beat color combination of Midnight Blue for the exterior and red Connolly leather inside is punctuated by a black soft-top roof and optional chrome wire wheels. Robert Ross, Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2023 Resolving the folding soft-top mechanism with the tail section must have been a bit of a challenge because the coupe’s C-pillar meets a confluence of design elements, among them the curvature of the rear haunches, the flush mounting of the rear window, and the relatively short overhang of the tail. Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 27 Sep. 2023 With a soft-top roof now replacing the former SL’s folding hardtop, most of the car’s weight is closer to the ground, allowing for truly impressive apexing, considering this is largely a backroads boulevardier. Marco Della Cava, Robb Report, 27 Apr. 2023

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“Soft-top.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/soft-top. Accessed 4 Nov. 2024.

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