How to Use all-terrain vehicle in a Sentence

all-terrain vehicle

noun
  • In the crash that killed Pronoy, the driver was at the helm of an all-terrain vehicle.
    New York Times, 14 Feb. 2022
  • The Granberys had kept gasoline, propane and an all-terrain vehicle in the barn, the walls of which were blown out by the blast.
    Chron, 5 Nov. 2021
  • The people who serve food and drink and sell cars and Sherp all-terrain vehicles have.
    Jonah Engel Bromwich, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2020
  • But all-terrain vehicles and snowmobiles will be too heavy for what's left of the ice around the area.
    cleveland.com, 16 Feb. 2018
  • The rescue came about a half hour after a man fell through ice on the lake with his all-terrain vehicle.
    Emilee Coblentz, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Every time our all-terrain vehicle hits a bump on the trail, a cloud of dust follows.
    Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 1 July 2021
  • For the intrepid, there are trails for all-terrain vehicles.
    Eduardo Porter, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2019
  • The path is barely wide enough for an all-terrain vehicle.
    Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 16 Aug. 2023
  • In a good all-terrain vehicle, crossing Guinea takes four days; in the rainy season, much longer.
    Washington Post, 24 June 2020
  • With that, a rider came out from a side room on a small electric all-terrain vehicle.
    Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Wolves howled the night of Jan. 3, and Ted Birdseye hopped on his all-terrain vehicle to check on the 200 cattle on the family's ranch south of Prospect.
    Andrew Theen, OregonLive.com, 9 Jan. 2018
  • Steven and Mark were riding the all-terrain vehicles with a friend in an old, abandoned quarry on Wednesday night when the group stopped.
    Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Bates was thrown from an all-terrain vehicle and died of blunt force trauama, Kilpatrick said.
    William Thornton, AL.com, 25 Feb. 2018
  • A couple parks offer off-road trails for dirt bikes and all-terrain vehicles.
    Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 1 June 2023
  • There are dirt bike and all-terrain vehicle trails and snowmobile tracks, along with a labyrinth of hiking and snow-shoeing paths.
    Howard Walker, Robb Report, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Two were extricated from the Jeep by all-terrain vehicle riders who were in the area and came to help, the sheriff’s office said.
    oregonlive, 22 Mar. 2021
  • The rugged design and potential power means the EV9 will be looking to take on Range Rover with this all-terrain vehicle.
    Jeremy White, WIRED, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Officers used all-terrain vehicles to reach her and then carried her back to land.
    Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 4 July 2023
  • Welch said the area had been searched previously by drones, all-terrain vehicles, kayak teams and foot patrols.
    Tom Foreman Jr., Fox News, 28 Sep. 2018
  • Police went to a home Jan. 9 where someone stole a 4-wheeler all-terrain vehicle.
    cleveland, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Wojciechowski fired up the crowd by coming out on a four-wheel, all-terrain vehicle.
    Ben Steele, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Oct. 2017
  • To survey the area, researchers spent upward of four months pulling GPR equipment across the surface with an all-terrain vehicle, reports Reuters.
    Courtney Sexton, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 June 2020
  • The town council has approved new rules that ban operation of dirt bikes, all-terrain vehicles and snowmobiles in most of the town.
    Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Aside from its solar super power, the Thundertruck is designed to be a full-fledged, all-terrain vehicle.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 23 Dec. 2021
  • To rescue the large dog, crews used an all-terrain vehicle and placed Nikko in a Stokes Basket on a wheel, carefully navigating the pooch down the mountain.
    Ally Mauch, PEOPLE.com, 31 July 2020
  • The cold-weather, all-terrain vehicle (CATV) will carry troops and equipment across snowy terrain.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 7 Apr. 2021
  • One boy died, but a second was uninjured, after a rollover in an all-terrain vehicle in Renville County, Minn.
    Star Tribune Staff, Star Tribune, 27 Feb. 2021
  • As an example, at the urging of the 82nd Airborne, a small drone, launched by a pneumatic tube, was attached to a military-grade all-terrain vehicle and fired while the ATV was on the move.
    Matt Canham, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 May 2021
  • That includes Alaska, where the all-terrain vehicle manufacturer features three off-road tours that approach the boundary of the Arctic Circle.
    Paula Conway, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The Border Patrol still uses horses, sometimes controversially – as well as all-terrain vehicles, trucks, and boats.
    Caitlin Babcock, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 May 2024

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