VEHICLE in a Sentence

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The horses were harnessed, and the travellers, summoned by the coachman, were hastily climbing the lofty iron ladder of the vehicle.

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 Meanings and Examples of VEHICLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
vehicle
 n.  automobile; a machine, usually with wheels and an engine, to transport people or goods on land
Classic Sentence: (92 in 7 pages)
1  The fall had been so unlucky that the whole weight of the vehicle rested on his breast.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT
2  It was impossible to disengage him otherwise than by lifting the vehicle off of him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT
3  Then, without saying a word, he fell on his knees, and before the crowd had even had time to utter a cry, he was underneath the vehicle.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT
4  The wheels had continued to sink, and it had become almost impossible for Madeleine to make his way from under the vehicle.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT
5  By the light which they cast he was able to distinguish the form of this vehicle.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP
6  The despatch box, an immense oblong coffer, was placed behind the vehicle and formed a part of it.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES
7  The wheelwright had seen at the first glance that the tilbury was a hired vehicle.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES
8  All this was true; but this trap, this ramshackle old vehicle, this thing, whatever it was, ran on its two wheels and could go to Arras.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES
9  The horses were harnessed, and the travellers, summoned by the coachman, were hastily climbing the lofty iron ladder of the vehicle.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE...
10  He took his bundle and his cudgel and jumped down from the vehicle.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE...
11  Not a shop, not a vehicle, hardly a candle lighted here and there in the windows; all lights extinguished after ten o'clock.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727
12  A little peasant girl, all entangled with the horses and the postilions at the end of the vehicle, was offering flowers to the travellers.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—SOME PETTICOAT
13  Laigle de Meaux, whose eyes were straying about in a sort of diffuse lounging, perceived, athwart his somnambulism, a two-wheeled vehicle proceeding through the place, at a foot pace and apparently in indecision.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET
14  It grew larger, it seemed to move in an orderly manner, though it was bristling and quivering; it seemed to be a vehicle, but its load could not be distinctly made out.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG
15  In the back and front of each vehicle, two men armed with muskets stood erect, each holding one end of the chain under his foot.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG
Example Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
16  A soldier was arrested after running amok with a vehicle through Berlin.
17  MGM made the film as a star vehicle for Brando.
18  The flimsy structure of the vehicle could not withstand even mild impacts.
19  The main mode is the regular one that keeps the vehicle's straight ahead motion in check.
20  The vehicle was driven to an underground garage where, say police, the robbers transferred four strong boxes full of cash into a getaway car.
21  He insisted on changing front bumper of the vehicle after accident.
22  A vehicle for conveying a coffin is to a church or cemetery.
23  The dog sniffed out more than $1.6 million in cocaine from a sports utility vehicle, officials said.
24  In September 2002, the vehicle became the first hydrogen fuel-cell-powered locomotive to be operated underground.
25  Art may be used as a vehicle for propaganda.
26  I mounted the vehicle which was to bear me to new duties and a new life in the unknown environs of Millcote.
27  For the electric automobile, light and efficient storage batteries is the source of the kinetic energy to propel the vehicle.
28  While Bill was entitled to use a company car while he worked for the firm, the company's lawyers questioned his entitlement to the vehicle once he'd quit his job.
29  In this case, you crapper ingest the money for acquire a locomote vehicle.
30  The project aims to design and build a vehicle capable of shattering the 1,000mph mark, leaving the current record of 763mph in the dust.