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Recent Examples of flivverEight thousand fans could fit in the bleachers and grandstands, with, as a novelty, room for people in 150 cars to watch the game from their flivvers.—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2023 In the background are two flivvers, which brought them there over bouncy roads.—Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 30 Aug. 2019 Leader of the campaign is a white man, the county health officer, a former Georgia farm boy who drove a flivver through fields of mud, 36 miles a day to medical school.—Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 25 July 2017
There were literal piles of dead and mangled Russians around the smoldering hulks.
David Axe,
Forbes,
1 Oct. 2024
The gleaming and modern hulk might have been rejected by the district’s conservative populace, especially since the Mubaraks had supported hospital fundraising efforts.
The shores of Europe were littered with wrecks from the First World War.
Sam Knight,
The New Yorker,
4 Nov. 2024
Skye is a wreck from the moment of her fateful contact, and watching an unstable protagonist get bludgeoned by terror in a world where almost nothing seems real is less gripping than watching one who’s actively fighting for her survival.
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
16 Oct. 2024
Golf carts resemble the Joad’s family jalopy in the film classic, The Grapes of Wrath, packed to the hilt with jumbo, floating water mats, some 20 feet in length, colossal floats better suited for the Macy’s Day Parade, and the largest sand robber of them all, the canvas beach cabana.
Steve Cambria,
Hartford Courant,
4 Aug. 2024
Do your annoying neighbors constantly park their old jalopy in front of your home?
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