How to Use joyride in a Sentence

joyride

noun

• Some teenager stole my car and took it for a joyride.
• But don’t be fooled: the downhill slope is not a joyride.
  — New York Times, 18 Apr. 2022
• Talk to Bears alumni who have been on the joyride at its peaks.
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 27 Jan. 2022
• Twenty years ago, Les Bleus won their first World Cup, and took the world on a joyride.
  — Jonathan Tannenwald, Philly.com, 13 June 2018
• Others steal the car for a joyride, crash it into a tree and abandon it.
  — Quanta Magazine, 19 Dec. 2022
• The charges stem from Dec. 20 joyride through the parking lot of the Holly Academy.
  — John Wisely, Detroit Free Press, 2 Oct. 2017
• This 90-minute joyride at the historic Club Fugazi in North Beach is perfect for a great night out!
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Feb. 2023
• The 19-year-old Waukesha man charged in a joyride that resulted in the death of his friend will not have to go to prison.
  — Jim Riccioli, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2021
• Afterward, the teens went on a joyride in Jordan’s Lexus for days.
  — Michael Gordon, charlotteobserver, 12 July 2017
• Pierson told the station Boland would sometimes land on his farm and the two would go for a short joyride.
  — Fox News, 17 July 2021
• Yet on his Bitcoin joyride, the merry prankster’s got no more control than a drunk at the wheel.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 12 May 2022
• The music video for the song lives in the world of Dirt Femme, as Tove Lo goes on a carefree joyride through the desert with a robot lover.
  — Chris Malone Méndez, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
• The teenagers then took his car on an hours-long joyride after the shooting, police said.
  — oregonlive, 1 Jan. 2020
• To read through her archive there is to take a joyride with a woman less and less patient.
  — Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2021
• The parents didn't find out about the joyride until police called them after the crash.
  — Fox News, 3 June 2021
• The streetcar has been criticized as a tourist's toy or a joyride for people on the way to or from bars.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 9 May 2018
• This is one big reason the franchise up to now has been such an escapist joyride.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Oct. 2021
• Many of the cars are recovered within a few days after the thieves are done with their joyrides.
  — Sam Sweeney, ABC News, 29 Apr. 2023
• The joyride ended with a walk down the tunnel in a huff, the seething noticeable in Jonathan Quick’s waddle.
  — Curtis Zupke, latimes.com, 23 Oct. 2017
• Here’s the underlying theme of this joyride through Texas.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 9 Oct. 2019
• The result: a fun, comfy joyride at near-normal bike speeds.
  — Roy M. Wallack, latimes.com, 5 July 2018
• The historic joyride made Shatner the oldest person to reach space.
  — NBC News, 13 Oct. 2021
• The movie is a genre joyride and a philosophical puzzle.
  — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2022
• Day Off, the movie will follow the valet attendants who took Cameron’s dad’s Ferrari for a joyride.
  — Vulture, 19 Aug. 2022
• With sunny skies and not a rain cloud in sight, Saturday was a perfect day to go for a joyride.
  — Micah Walker, Detroit Free Press, 29 June 2019
• The open-cockpit projectile was designed for high-speed, open-air joyrides on the street or track.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 3 Apr. 2023
• The Bears are charging into a season full of hope and yet the loose lug nut that caused last year’s joyride to crash and burn has still not been fixed.
  — Rich Campbell, chicagotribune.com, 24 July 2019
• Often, teenagers take cars for joyrides and abandon them in Hartford.
  — Jesse Leavenworth, Courant Community, 10 July 2018
• The teens stopped at a Taco Bell about three and a half hours into the joyride, before abandoning the car, the affidavit states.
  — oregonlive, 10 Oct. 2020
• The apparent reason for the brothers’ late night joyride?
  — Heather Chen, CNN, 10 May 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024