How to Use passenger car in a Sentence

passenger car

noun
  • By 1950, the owners got rid of the streamlined passenger car and built a building for the restaurant.
    Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The four-door Honda Civic passenger car struck the rear of the residence, but no one inside the home was hurt.
    Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The passenger car was going the wrong way when the driver hit a box truck straight on, causing the passenger car to catch on fire.
    Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 10 Sep. 2023
  • With the beginning of the new rail car service, Frisco ended its passenger car service to Bentonville.
    Randy McCrory Vintage Bentonville, arkansasonline.com, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Police say the crash involved a male pedestrian and a white colored passenger car.
    Lillian Boyd, The Arizona Republic, 25 Feb. 2023
  • The Hyundai passenger car had extensive fire damage to the front bumper and engine compartment.
    Ron Wood, arkansasonline.com, 2 Apr. 2024
  • The fully autonomous vehicle is unmanned and about half the width of a passenger car.
    IEEE Spectrum, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Top of mind for Wall Street has been how—and when—Tesla may roll out a new, less expensive passenger car that would extend the company’s reach into the mass market.
    Rebecca Elliott, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Just six inches of water can reach the bottom of the average passenger car and cause loss of control, and only a foot of water can float many vehicles.
    Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Witnesses told officers the shooting suspect was in a red passenger car that was last seen fleeing eastbound on Main Street.
    Ellie Willard, The Arizona Republic, 16 Apr. 2023
  • However, places like China saw passenger car sales increase by more than 10%.
    Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Volkswagen The Volkswagen passenger car brand looks set to lay off workers, according to a report in Reuters.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The passenger car mandate was enabled by a bill passed by the Connecticut legislature in 2003 that ties the state's clean air rules to California’s program.
    Thomas Catenacci, Fox News, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Now Lotus is preparing another four-door passenger car, a sedan code-named the Type 133, that's set to be unveiled next week, and officially confirmed today that the sedan will be called the Emeya.
    Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Hydrogen has found little success in the passenger car market.
    Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Hydrogen has found little success in the passenger car market.
    Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 27 Feb. 2024
  • One of the vehicles was a small, white cargo van and the other was a blue passenger car, according to the Plainfield Police Department, which is investigating the case.
    Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Mar. 2023
  • There are a few high-end cars in China that also use a camera instead of a window, plus a handful of concepts and prototypes from different brands, but the Polestar 4 is the first mainstream production passenger car to ditch the rear window.
    Daniel Golson, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The train bank is a vintage passenger car and a former Cotton Belt wooden caboose, still sitting on old railroad tracks, according to RoadsideAmerica.com, an online guide to offbeat tourist attractions.
    Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Another passenger car appeared to be severely crushed, with its outer body severely mangled, as workers slowly began lifting it into the air using a crane.
    Kelly Kasulis Cho, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2023

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