Skinny men shout from rolled-down windows, megaphones in hand, or through crackling speakers perched on their roofs. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady Matador’s Hotel] Reference
Bollywood show tunes, which had been illegal just a week earlier, seemed to blare from every rolled-down car window. From Wordnik.com. [Peace Meals] Reference
At one end of the saloon, fishermen still wearing their rolled-down boots drank and played Watch Me for small stakes. From Wordnik.com. [Wizard and Glass]
The air smelled electric, reminding me of riding with rolled-down windows, the shimmering wind pummeling us in a furnace blast. From Wordnik.com. [UNFILTERED] Reference
"Crazy" was this year's "Hey Ya," coming out of rolled-down windows and store fronts, uniting every head in nodding synchronicity. From Wordnik.com. [Wolfson's List] Reference
The Woody Bayou Convertibles have a rolled-down height of 17 inches, and stretch up to 25 inches with the skirt extended (see photo). From Wordnik.com. [2009 Holiday Gift Guide: Ten Great Gifts for Hunters and Fishermen] Reference
Except the Marydale, Ohio, one, which was not only still there, but had been reinforced by the rolled-down stockings and crossword puzzle data. From Wordnik.com. [Futures Imperfect]
We drive up Broadway, and the traffic thickens; car horns and screeching brakes wend into a noise landscape, as do screaming sirens and music from rolled-down car windows. From Wordnik.com. [Vivian Rising] Reference
He ambled over to the car, nodded at me, then studied the license plate and walked once around the vehicle before stopping in front of the now rolled-down passenger window. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union] Reference
A performance before the rolled-down corrugated steel door of a warehouse by Landscape Invention Society, called "Sticks And Bones" at Bring To Light, Nuit Blanche NYC 2010. From Wordnik.com. [Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington: NY's Nuit Blanche: "Bring To Light"] Reference
A University couple lingers behind them, matching sweatshirts tied around youthful waists, she has black curly hair and a throaty laugh that reverberates through my rolled-down window. From Wordnik.com. [blog: February 2008] Reference
I called up the rest of the twenties data and asked for geographical breakdowns, and there was the anomaly again, for rolled-down stockings and the crossword puzzle, right over Marydale. From Wordnik.com. [Futures Imperfect]
The four of them watched in glazed incomprehension as the Wee Shite's hand waved - royalty-style - from out of the rolled-down window and the vehicle accelerated into the deepening twilight, unimpeded, unpursued. From Wordnik.com. [Country of the Blind]
But I've read that rolled-down windows also decrease fuel economy, since they increase drag. From Wordnik.com. [Slate Magazine] Reference
Now he wore a black turban and carried a Kalashnikov, the barrel of which he pressed against the rolled-down window of the vehicle. From Wordnik.com. [Free Internet Press] Reference
Antonis walked up to the Costos 'parked car, Gilchrist said, and talked to Eric Costo through the rolled-down driver's-side window. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Yarbrough said criminals are targeting unlocked vehicles or vehicles with rolled-down windows where electronics and valuables are out in the open. From Wordnik.com. [North Lake Tahoe Bonanza - Top Stories] Reference
But where were the young hunters with their rolled-down hip waders, faded hand-me-down camo jackets and "Quack Addict" stickers in the windows of their trucks?. From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
Even if rolled-down windows eke out a win at all but the highest speeds, the Lantern realizes that many drivers will balk at the idea of zipping along the highway while exposed to the elements. From Wordnik.com. [Slate Magazine] Reference
Which means customers will be stopping - or, if they're really good, slowing down with a rolled-down window to take the handoff - in one of Tejon's single traffic lanes, northbound or southbound. From Wordnik.com. [Gazette.com :] Reference
Throughout the city Thursday, signs of spring were on every corner: A Billy Joel tune wafted out the rolled-down windows of a car crossing Eagle Street; children riding bikes and pushing scooters after school were again unburdened by snow-packed streets. From Wordnik.com. [The Observer-Dispatch Home RSS] Reference
Lane looked down at her, at her glistening auburn hair, and slender, white, ringed hand clutching the cushions, at her lissom shaking form, at the shapely legs in the rolled-down silk stockings -- and he felt a melancholy happiness in the proof that he had reached her shallow heart, and in the fact that this was the moment of loss. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of the Beast] Reference
So don’t worry too much about how much you fill your gas tank by, or whether you’re using A/C or rolled-down windows to keep you cool. From Wordnik.com. [Can You Improve Gas Mileage By Filling Your Tank Half-Way? | Live Granades] Reference
We would drive to the guts of Jordan’s ancient capital—horns honking, drivers yelling at each other through rolled-down windows—park the car, and walk downhill to the storefront with a concrete balcony and a window shaped like the silhouette of the Dome of the Rock.11 The balcony was used to store large electrical equipment—a generator, or an enormous air-conditioning unit, or maybe both—and unsightly wires usually dangled out of the stencilled likeness of the mosque’s cupola, as though some horrid alien monster had built a nest inside the shrine. From Wordnik.com. [Peace Meals] Reference
There was the valley, dotted with rock and rolled-down stone, and these two house-places, and woven with innumerable new waters, and one hoarse stone-tracked river in the desert, and the thin road-track winding along the desolate flat, past first one house, then the other, over one stream, then another, on to the far rock-face above which the glacier seemed to loll like some awful great tongue put out. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain's Doll] Reference
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