AUTOMOBILE in a Sentence

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For AUTOMOBILE, below is one of 26 sentences:
After the automobile accident, the victim had periods of aphasia when he could not speak at all or could only mumble incoherently.

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 Meanings and Examples of AUTOMOBILE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
automobile
 n.  self-propelled vehicle suitable for use on street or roadway
Classic Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  The automobile and bridge-whist had not only made more evident the social divisions in Gopher Prairie but they had also enfeebled the love of activity.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
2  On her first evening in Gopher Prairie Cy had appeared at the head of a "charivari," banging immensely upon a discarded automobile fender.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  He returned with an entirely new group, and this time there were three automobile fenders and a carnival rattle.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  It isn't enough, to stand by while he fills an automobile radiator and chucks me bits of information.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
5  Only, I'm not idiot enough to pay more than the government makes me pay, and Sam and I were just figuring out whether all automobile expenses oughn't to be exemptions.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  When the interpreter had translated this, the judge, whose calendar was crowded, and whose automobile was ordered for a certain hour, interrupted with the remark: "Oh, I see."
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
7  Now Charlie had got leave from college, and had gone away in his automobile on the next best thing to a honeymoon.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
8  Best of all, the famous and eloquent Senator Spareshanks, presidential candidate, rode out in an automobile to discuss the sacred privileges of American citizenship, and protection and prosperity for the American workingman.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
9  Snell was there three days before he went to the penitentiary, so drunk out on the gravel drive that Mrs. Ulysses Swett's automobile ran over his right hand.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
10  After half an hour the sun shone again and the grocer's automobile rounded Gatsby's drive with the raw material for his servants' dinner--I felt sure he wouldn't eat a spoonful.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
11  They got into automobiles which bore them out to Long Island and somehow they ended up at Gatsby's door.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
12  I was sure that they were selling something: bonds or insurance or automobiles.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
13  Only gradually did I become aware that the automobiles which turned expectantly into his drive stayed for just a minute and then drove sulkily away.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
14  We saw the three or four automobiles and the crowd when we were still some distance away.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
15  The movies were almost as vital to Kennicott and the other solid citizens of Gopher Prairie as land-speculation and guns and automobiles.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
Example Sentence:
1  There will be an exhibition of the development of automobile industry in our country next week.
2  An example of synonym is the words car and automobile.
3  After the automobile accident, the victim had periods of aphasia when he could not speak at all or could only mumble incoherently.
4  We do more to decimate our population in automobile accidents than we do in war.
5  For the electric automobile, light and efficient storage batteries is the source of the kinetic energy to propel the vehicle.
6  Global competition in the automobile industry has been driving out many of the smaller firms.
7  You can see a clot of automobiles blocking the tunnel's entrance.
8  A buzzer or beeper is a signaling device, usually electronic, typically used in automobiles, household appliances such as a microwave oven, or game shows.
9  Modern automobiles all have suspensions that cushion the ride.