How to Use e-scooter in a Sentence
e-scooter
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As the two quibbled over the price, Butler stepped away and tried to steal the e-scooter.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 6 Nov. 2024
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Now, both e-scooters and e-bikes can be booked using the Lyft or Biketown app.
—Meira Gebel, Axios, 15 Aug. 2024
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Now the city wants to reverse course to lure e-scooter companies back.
—Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Nov. 2023
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Last year, there were a total of 116 fires involving e-bikes and e-scooters.
—Bobby Caina Calvan, Fortune, 27 July 2023
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Uber next plans to add the effects of using e-bikes, e-scooters, and UberX Share rides booked on the app, according to Axios.
—Sunny Nagpaul, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2024
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Last month, Baltimore issued a new round of e-bike and e-scooter permits for public use around the city.
—Dana Munro, Baltimore Sun, 25 July 2024
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Those with a smartphone can locate, rent and park dockless e-scooters and e-bikes through an app, or riders can use the text-to-unlock plan.
—Kiersten Hacker, Baltimore Sun, 27 June 2024
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Two people were seen near the museum riding e-scooters at about the time of the robbery, police told the museum.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 8 May 2024
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Two 15-year-old boys are in the hospital after being hit by a car while riding an e-scooter on Tuesday evening.
—Beck Andrew Salgado, Journal Sentinel, 31 May 2023
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At the end of the pilot program, the city conducted a survey that showed a 30 percent decrease in support for e-scooters in Lakewood.
—John Benson, cleveland, 13 Sep. 2023
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Last year, an eight-year-old girl was killed when a e-scooter’s lithium-ion battery exploded in a couple’s living room in Queens.
—Emily Davies, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
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The company has also quadrupled its fleets since the pandemic began, with more than 6,500 e-scooters and e-bikes across the region.
—Heidi Pérez-Moreno, Washington Post, 20 June 2023
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Why not try parking your gas-wasting car for short trips and ride-share, borrow or buy an eBike, e-scooter or street-legal electric golf cart.
—Edward Humes, The Mercury News, 23 Mar. 2024
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In other Flickr albums, the rise of e-scooters from companies like Bird is evident.
—Abigail Gruskin, Baltimore Sun, 24 July 2023
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Custom Robotics is preparing to launch a rugged off-road e-scooter called the Panzer.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 29 Mar. 2024
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In one incident in January, an e-bike or e-scooter battery caught fire and injured 18 children at a day care in Queens.
—Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 5 July 2023
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Bike totals also include e-bike, moped, and e-scooter riders.
—John Surico, Curbed, 21 Dec. 2023
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San Diego was on the early front line of the e-scooter war because of our year-round temperate climate and our ranking as a top tourist destination.
—Barbara Bry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Feb. 2024
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Madrid is not the first city to take action against e-scooter rentals, which have become increasingly divisive.
—Jack Guy, CNN, 9 Sep. 2024
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Investing in improvements for rail, bus, roads and last-mile solutions like e-bikes and/or e-scooters.
—Alixel Cabrera, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
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The solution is to realize that e-bikes and e-scooters are motor vehicles.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 19 Feb. 2024
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There are also e-scooter sharing services through the Lime or Bit Mobility apps.
—Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 24 Oct. 2024
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But Take Note: Experts recommend against e-scooters for anyone under 16 years old.
—Cheryl Fenton, Parents, 29 Sep. 2023
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Save up to 40% on basketballs, volleyballs, and footballs from Wilson, and e-scooters from Segway.
—Usa Today Staff, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2024
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Four months after the return of e-scooters to Dallas, city transportation officials could change the rules to allow rides a little past 9 p.m. and increase the amount of scooters downtown.
—Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2023
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Anyone living in a big city knows the increasing nervousness as phone snatchers on bikes and e-scooters prey on victims walking sidewalks.
—Zak Doffman, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
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Unfortunately, that shift in turn helped explain why the median age of an injured e-bike and e-scooter user was higher.
—Melvin Backman, Quartz, 25 July 2024
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Lime will share voter registration deadlines and offer free e-bike and e-scooter rides to polling locations on Election Day.
—Afdhel Aziz, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
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With injuries and fatalities on the rise, another major city just decided to ban e-scooter rentals.
—Daniel Wine, CNN, 15 Aug. 2024
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For e-scooter riders, wearing a helmet is a crucial preventive measure as essential as a seatbelt.
—Michelle Weinberg, Sun Sentinel, 26 Nov. 2024
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