How to Use carriage in a Sentence

carriage

noun
  • I took the baby to the park in the carriage.
  • They rode to the city in carriages.
  • The four children were on their way to school, with Rose Miller holding the reins of the carriage.
    Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner, 19 Oct. 2023
  • As the steward poured me a white wine, the carriages rattled and swayed around the switchbacks.
    Tom Robbins, Travel + Leisure, 25 June 2023
  • The train is just north of Vang Vieng when the sound of a woman crying echoes through the carriage.
    Duncan Forgan, CNN, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Just inside the gates, there’s a carriage house and a parking area.
    Mark David, Robb Report, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Frederik, as the new king, will get the carriage on the way back, while his mother goes by car.
    Karla Adam, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2024
  • The queen also rode in a carriage with William to Wednesday’s races.
    Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 20 June 2024
  • She was last seen leaving the house with Frannie and her child in a carriage.
    Ashley Leath, Country Living, 5 July 2023
  • They’re both held in a carriage that rolls along steel rails over a wood-timber bed.
    Lawrence Specker | Lspecker@al.com, al, 18 Sep. 2023
  • In the mid-1800s, a wooden carriage house stood along the historic Santa Fe Trail.
    Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 25 Mar. 2024
  • This whole road was made of my eyes many many eyes and was called for, called vision that carriage of sight.
    New York Times, 30 June 2022
  • The union spokesperson said Ryder is 14 years old and had been a carriage horse for four months.
    Elisha Fieldstadt, NBC News, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The bell is still tolling, and as the queen’s coffin is placed on the gun carriage, the silence is overwhelming.
    Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The carriage house hosts out-of-towners, and gives guests a separate suite away from the main house.
    Claire Brito, House Beautiful, 26 July 2022
  • As with any carriage agreement, the devil will be in the details.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2024
  • The squat structure, somewhere around 1,000 square feet, had once been a carriage house.
    David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 14 June 2024
  • Donley’s purview skews toward the macros — the trunks, the trucks, the carriage of cargo across a network of crews and depots.
    Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The lookalikes also had to feature the same carriages, including the bar car, the restaurant car, and the kitchen.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 24 July 2023
  • Spector: People got run over by carriages all the time.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 18 Dec. 2023
  • The queen’s coffin was taken to the abbey from Westminster Hall atop the state gun carriage.
    WSJ, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The original knot, the four-in-hand, is said to have taken its name from a way of driving a horse carriage.
    Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2023
  • In the film version, the noise of a carriage return on a typewriter covers the curse word.
    Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2022
  • The famous carriage scene from the book Romancing Mr. Bridgerton takes place at the end of Part 1.
    Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2024
  • If the players take longer than the 90 minutes, the carriage leaves and the police arrive for their rounds and discover the heist in progress.
    BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The characters are all on a train, and each train carriage is almost its own world.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Interested customers should head to the park and look for the special carriage concierge to book a trip.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 May 2023
  • Some people started to climb out through the windows because there was smoke in the carriage.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2023
  • His method of arrival has included a carriage, a Jeep, the subway and even a boat, but the jolly old fellow hasn’t missed a year.
    Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Jamie hands her a sack full of apples to keep her teeth healthy, kisses her passionately, and puts her on the carriage.
    Lincee Ray, EW.com, 23 Nov. 2024

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