How to Use rickshaw in a Sentence

rickshaw

noun
  • The goal for the WS18-19 was to make Roboy drive his rickshaw!
    IEEE Spectrum, 19 Apr. 2019
  • On the sidewalk, a slight man leaned against a bright-green auto rickshaw.
    Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 25 July 2022
  • Even with the challenges, the e-rickshaw market still has a lot going for it.
    Simran Vaswani, Forbes, 16 June 2022
  • Head over here for a virtual rickshaw ride around the city.
    New York Times, 14 Apr. 2020
  • That’s half the price of a new rickshaw powered by natural gas.
    Clifford Krauss, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2023
  • On the day of the event, after dinner, an old friend hired a rickshaw from the city to congratulate.
    Douglas Hofstadter, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Nearby at a busy market in the heart of Karachi, Jamshed Awan sat on his rickshaw as traffic lurched past him.
    New York Times, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Think of them when there is no auto rickshaw, no bus service.
    Arunabh Saikia, Quartz India, 23 Mar. 2020
  • Thanks in part to her earnings, her husband has been able to buy an auto-rickshaw.
    The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
  • There are few cars, but the traffic is chaotic — a crush of cycle rickshaws, tuk-tuks and two-wheelers.
    Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Three-wheeled rickshaws whirl out of the roundabouts straight at you, packs of stray dogs dash into the road, huge buses lurch up from behind.
    New York Times, 4 Feb. 2020
  • If someone is sick at night, a rickshaw will do just as well as an ambulance.
    New York Times, 19 July 2021
  • Once roaring with trucks, scooters, and rickshaws, the streets of Mandalay are silent today.
    Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 6 Apr. 2020
  • Both ride-hailing giants have seen a big spike in auto-rickshaw rides, too.
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 22 Feb. 2021
  • The rescuers had to move dozens of rickshaws and bikes so that the firemen could make their way through the narrow lanes enmeshed with electrical wire.
    Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2019
  • To get 5 liters of gasoline, auto-rickshaw drivers wait calmly in line for as long as five days.
    BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2022
  • To get five liters of gasoline, auto-rickshaw drivers wait calmly in line for as long as five days.
    New York Times, 19 July 2022
  • Using the cash to start a small business, such as a tea stall or an auto-rickshaw service, remained a pipe dream.
    Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2010
  • On the canvas of the rickshaw’s cabin, the owner had summed up his situation.
    Mustafa Salim, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Ratanlal Giri, a rickshaw puller, got a ration card made in Goregaon, Mumbai, way back in 1998.
    Vijayta Lalwani, Quartz, 6 July 2021
  • News reports said the road in front of the explosion site was busy with people and tricycle rickshaws.
    Fox News, 19 Nov. 2019
  • Depending on the situation, users can choose to drive it as a rickshaw or a scooter, or even switch between the two modes on the go.
    Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 17 Feb. 2024
  • But in Bangladesh the cycle rickshaw is as popular as ever.
    The Economist, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Riggs followed in a rickshaw pulled by half-naked models.
    Molly Knight, Marie Claire, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Some demonstrators arrived in rickshaws, which have been used to carry the wounded from the bloody clashes.
    Time, 6 Oct. 2019
  • Still another featured an Asian man in a rice-picker hat pulling a rickshaw.
    NBC News, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Many rickshaw pullers are migrants from the neighboring state of Bihar.
    New York Times, 19 July 2021
  • Now, her mother works in a garment factory; her father, once a rice farmer, drives a rickshaw.
    Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Her romance with a rickshaw driver is shoved aside by an ambitious and ruthless army chief.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 2 Sep. 2021
  • When the scooter is connected, its rear wheel lifts off the ground, and the rickshaw’s motor and batteries power the whole vehicle.
    Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 17 Feb. 2024

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