Some may think that "motorcar" is common in England, but I've never heard it over there. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3] Reference
And you don't call this an automobile, it's a motorcar. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 8, 2009] Reference
But he was with the I.R. A. brigade in Johnson's motorcar. From Wordnik.com. [Pat of Mullingar] Reference
I see a motorcar drive out of the courtyard of the building. From Wordnik.com. [Stuka Pilot]
It's a Chrysler GEM -- GEM stands for global electric motorcar. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 31, 2002] Reference
It would be like making a film about America without a motorcar. From Wordnik.com. [Brad Balfour: Director Danny Boyle Creates a Slumdog Millionaire and Serious Oscar Buzz] Reference
No farmhouse was in sight to which the motorcar might have gone. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret Wireless or, The Spy Hunt of the Camp Brady Patrol] Reference
This will probably turn out to be an innovation in motorcar design. From Wordnik.com. [An Oldie Is New Again: High-Tech Soap Box Racing] Reference
Maigret preferred the theory of the rug, more especially a motorcar rug. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Lazy Burglar]
The woman motorcar driver has made her appearance in the zone of the army. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919] Reference
An event that, two years after our return, sent their motorcar off a cliff. From Wordnik.com. [Locked Rooms]
Two shiny black rickshaws had arrived and behind them a large black motorcar. From Wordnik.com. [The Joy Luck Club]
He presented it to me with a bow and then escorted me to the Baron's motorcar. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of a Geisha]
He loved gadgets, bought a new motorcar every year and tinkered with it himself. From Wordnik.com. [Locked Rooms]
I definitely remember getting into the motorcar that was to return us to Jericho. From Wordnik.com. [O Jerusalem]
A sleek blue motorcar driven by a fair-headed boy, with two young women passengers. From Wordnik.com. [Locked Rooms]
Particularly complicated is the planning of lighting installations in motorcar industry. From Wordnik.com. [10. Mounting of Lighting Installations] Reference
I arranged a gracious smile on my face and permitted him to hand me out of the motorcar. From Wordnik.com. [The Moor]
Said, too, that to find your father's motorcar in the drive in the morning was most unusual. From Wordnik.com. [Locked Rooms]
No motorcar tyre is carried against it for the massive destruction of life in southern Africa. From Wordnik.com. ["SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS OF STRUGGLE": ADDRESS AT THE LA TROBE UNIVERSITY, AUSTRALIA, APRIL 3, 1987] Reference
I was in a motorcar accident some years ago, and this one has brought back … unpleasant things. From Wordnik.com. [O Jerusalem]
I felt remarkably well physically, for a person who had been bashed about in a motorcar accident. From Wordnik.com. [O Jerusalem]
It achieved exactly what Henry Ford set out to do: to "build a motorcar for the great multitude.". From Wordnik.com. [Oct. 1, 1908: A Basic Car for the Great Unwashed] Reference
"Ah! Have you the necessary extension which allows you to use a motorcar as a habitation for hens?". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 21, 1917] Reference
Is it … could it be … “And Armstrong is coming down the straight like a grand prix motorcar!”. From Wordnik.com. [Amber Neben Diary: What if Phil and Paul commentated on our daily lives?] Reference
And we sit for eight hours and then we get up and we sit in the motorcar, you know, in automobile and we go home. From Wordnik.com. [100 Years Ago, Exercise Was Blended Into Daily Life] Reference
It was in fact the popularity of the motorcar that would create a whole new set of problems for snow removal crews. From Wordnik.com. [Snow removal in the United States] Reference
Take the 1903 Sidesaddle Motoring Coat: the tale of the "Ladies Ford Arabian", a motorcar made for Detroit debutantes. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth Donoghue: The Unforgettable Trends of Forgotten Fashion] Reference
Finally I retain the impression of the motorcar gearing down to climb a hill, and rocky cliffs, and a few sparse trees. From Wordnik.com. [O Jerusalem]
In 1931, after an unhappy experience on New York's Fifth Avenue, he wrote about what it was like to be hit by a motorcar. From Wordnik.com. [Winston Churchill archive to go online] Reference
I put the scroll into my pocket and went out, for a motorcar had come into the park, and I knew that Marquis had arrived. From Wordnik.com. [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference
Mozambicans are accused in South Africa of involvement in criminal activities such as drug trafficking and motorcar theft. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Recongesting occurs when an invention like the motorcar, intended to get us more quickly from here to there, slows us down. From Wordnik.com. [Technological Nightmares (Lecture)~ Suffering from Success] Reference
You bought a five horse-power motorcar, of an obsolete make, which you use to do your own shopping at the market at Arpajon. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret at the Crossroads]
It is alleged the Golf's occupants then hijacked Mr Barbas, fatally wounding him and stealing his luxury motorcar (BMW 535i). From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
She had gotten down from a motorcar that stood beside the curb -- one of those modern vehicles, fitted with splendid trappings. From Wordnik.com. [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference
Mr. PAUL FISHER: Basically, I go to the clock three times a week, and I get a thing that looks like a starting handle from a motorcar. From Wordnik.com. [Historic Cathedral Clock Going Electric] Reference
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