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How to use limousine in a sentence

21 example sentences · noun

Limousine means an automobile body with seats and permanent top like a coupe, and with the top projecting over the driver and a projecting front. Example: “That fellow's new limousine is the centre of attention, as everyone stops to stare at it.”

More sentences with limousine

  • That fellow's new limousine is the centre of attention, as everyone stops to stare at it.From the entry centre of attention
  • Chinese President Xi Jinping on a Hongqi limousine at a parade in Tienanmen Square in Beijing.2022 January 24, Aadil Brar, “Chinese are talking about inequality again just a year after Xi said poverty ended”, in Anurag Chaubey…. From the entry Tienanmen
  • "Beatniks," snorted one grande dame as she pushed her way toward her chauffeur-driven limousine.1966 August 19, “Resorts: Happening at the Hamptons”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28…. From the entry grande dame
  • Herbert steering the dreadnought limousine through the night, black cap on his black head.1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 278. From the entry dreadnought
  • At three o'clock that afternoon the Sayre limousine stopped in front of Nina's house, and Mrs.1922, Mary Roberts Rinehart, chapter 17, in The Breaking Point. From the entry Queen of Sheba
  • There was a moment before the speech when cameras captured Mr Trump in his armoured limousine, rehearsing his lines.2017 March 1, Anthony Zurcher, “Trump addresses Congress: A kinder, gentler president”, in BBC News. From the entry armoured
  • The ragged men thumbed their noses at the limousine.2014, Joyce Van Haren, On Woodward, Abbott Press, →ISBN, page 114. From the entry Hoover flag
  • The CrewMax sacrifices a foot of bed length for a huge cabin whose rearseat legroom would make many a limousine blush.2007 August 11, Tom Strongman, “2007 Toyota Tundra”, in Kansas City Star. From the entry rearseat
  • And here comes the princess now, stepping from her limousine, flanked by musclemen, caught in a fusillade of clicking cameras.2001, Mick Lewis, chapter 14, in Rags, page 158. From the entry muscleman
  • "Young knight, your chariot awaits," he announced, as a long silver limousine rolled to a stop in front of them.1987, Betty Henrichs, Casanova's Downfall, page 61. From the entry your chariot awaits
  • We climbed into the back seat of a long black limousine and headed toward the city, thirteen miles away.1980, Gerald Ford, A Time to Heal, New York: Berkley Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 213. From the entry Vladivostok
  • Then three gum-chewing, strawhatted, dress-suited gangsters emerge from an oversize limousine and engage Albers in a full-scale gun battle.1959, “The European Western—By George N. Fenin and William K. Everson”, in Film Culture, number 20, page 66. From the entry dress-suited
  • He had his foot on the brake during the kill zone, keeping the limousine almost motionless, while the brake lights were one.2016, The Lone Wolf, The 10 Second Kill Zone, →ISBN, page 3. From the entry kill zone
  • This custom limousine is an eye-popper.2013, Chuck D'Imperio, Unknown Museums of Upstate New York: A Guide to 50 Treasures. From the entry eye-popper
  • They are Spartists, bleeding hearts , do-gooders , limousine liberals who probably live in Hampstead and care more about criminals than their victims.2000, Nick Cohen, Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the Preposterous, Verso, →ISBN, page 102. From the entry Spartist
  • At approximately 9:30 p.m. the demonstrators regrouped in front of the Copley Plaza and leafleted the area until an entourage of limousines entered the hotel.1980 August 16, Warren Blumenfeld, “Disabled Group Pickets Sack Titanic Premiere”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 5, page 3. From the entry leaflet
  • As we crossed Blackwell's Island a limousine passed us, driven by a white chauffeur, in which sat three modish negroes, two bucks and a girl.1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 83. From the entry modish
  • Winnie had kindly sent her limousine car for them, and it stood throbbing in front of the hotel-entrance, its acetylenes streaming far up the street.1908, Upton Sinclair, The Metropolis, New York: Moffat, Yard & Company, page 69. From the entry acetylene
  • As she read the portrait of the small staring face in the sailor hat, fervent in its withdrawn impavidness, gazed out upon her from the slowly gliding limousine.1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1030. From the entry impavidness
  • Whilst they sat they heard the whirr of a motor car, and a long-bonneted limousine came into view and stopped opposite the gates, and a lady got out.1927, Edgar Wallace, chapter 11, in The Man Who Was Nobody. From the entry long-bonneted
  • As he stood directly beneath a brilliant arc light, waiting for a limousine that was approaching to pass him, he heard his name called in a sweet feminine voice.1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “What Happened in the Rue Maule”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt…. From the entry machine

Meaning of limousine

  1. noun An automobile body with seats and permanent top like a coupe, and with the top projecting over the driver and a projecting front.
  2. noun An automobile with such a body.
  3. noun A luxury sedan or saloon car, especially one with a lengthened wheelbase or driven by a chauffeur.

Full definition of limousine

Questions about limousine in a sentence

How do you use limousine in a sentence?
Limousine is used as a noun. For example: “That fellow's new limousine is the centre of attention, as everyone stops to stare at it.”
What is a short sentence with limousine?
“This custom limousine is an eye-popper.”
What does limousine mean?
Limousine means an automobile body with seats and permanent top like a coupe, and with the top projecting over the driver and a projecting front.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: limousine (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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