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How to use omnibus in a sentence

19 example sentences · noun, adjective, verb

Omnibus means a bus (vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads). Example: “This work is an omnibus containing all books in the Remembrance of Earth’s Past series.”

Examples of omnibus by meaning

nounA bus (vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads).

  • Omnibuses were advertised to run in connection with the trains to and from points in the City and West End; fare to the former 3d., to the latter 6d. from Bricklayers Arms.1944 July and August, Reginald B. Fellows, “The Failure of Bricklayers Arms as a Passenger Station—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 212

nounAn anthology of previously released material linked together by theme or author, especially in book form.

  • This work is an omnibus containing all books in the Remembrance of Earth’s Past series.

nounA broadcast programme consisting of all of the episodes of a serial that have been shown in the previous week.

  • The omnibus edition of The Archers is broadcast every Sunday morning at 11:00.
  • In 1989, he had another go at it, trimming the 207-minute serial into a 178-minute omnibus for release on video cassette, mostly losing comic relief.2014, Kim Newman, “Introduction”, in Quatermass and the Pit, London: Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute, →ISBN...

nounA stamp issue, usually commemorative, that appears simultaneously in several countries as a joint issue.

  • These ‘omnibus’ stamps featured topics and individuals with no links to the issuing country.2013, Agbenyega Adedze, “Visualizing the Game: The Iconography of Football on African Postage Stamps”, in Susann Baller, Giorgio Miescher...

nounAn assistant waiter.

  • He must pay his omnibus himself.1912 June 1, Mary Alden Hopkins, “International Hotel Workers’ Strike”, in Collier’s: The National Weekly, volume XLIX, number 11, New...
  • Little omnibuses in white suits moved about, gathering up papers or napkins dropped by careless diners; bigger omnibuses in dinner jackets exported trays of dishes which the lordly artists of the serving force were above touching.1913 May, Henry Sydnor Harrison, “How It Is One Thing to Run Away from Yourself, and Another to Escape; […]”, in V. V.’s Eyes, Boston...

adjectiveContaining multiple items.

  • The legislature enacted an omnibus appropriations bill.
  • The inventors face a similar uphill battle in their fight against the omnibus bill.1996 June 3, Sabra Chartrand, “Patents; Some independent inventors cry foul about an omnibus bill to reshape the patent system”, in The New...

verbTo combine (legislative bills, etc.) into a single package.

  • In the tax levy measure were omnibused all appropriations for the maintenance of government for the fiscal year.1927, Denis Tilden Lynch, chapter XXIII, in “Boss” Tweed: The Story of a Grim Generation, New York, N.Y.: Boni & Liveright, →OCLC...

More sentences with omnibus

  • She flitted around the omnibus in a spiritish dance of joy.2009, Gail Dayton, Heart's Blood. From the entry spiritish
  • Private omnibuses, flys and other conveniences can be had at short notice on application to Messrs.1941 December, “Notes and News: Timetable features of the Past”, in Railway Magazine, page 570. From the entry fly
  • So reads the new slogan painted on the letterboards of New York City omnibuses.1941, Transit Journal: Volume 85. From the entry letterboard
  • The motor omnibuses reach a speed rate of four miles an hour.1907 August 1, “The Sprit of Rush”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 30 Jan 2023. From the entry step lively
  • The tyres of motor omnibuses, it was said, were punctured.1955 May 9, The Times, page 9. From the entry motor omnibus
  • How did she know that at this very moment both her children were not lying dead, crushed by motor omnibuses?1915, Virginia Woolf, chapter XVII, in The Voyage Out, London: Duckworth & Co., […], →OCLC. From the entry motor omnibus
  • London Bridge with the omnibuses — a troopship goin' to the war — marines on parade at Portsmouth an' the Plymouth Express arrivin' at Paddin'ton.” “Seen 'em all.1904, Rudyard Kipling, Mrs Bathurst. From the entry biograph
  • There was, for much of the period, no cheap public transport; and even the Underground, or one of Shillibeer's horse-drawn omnibuses, was beyond the pocket of many of the poor.2012, Simon Heffer, “In Fagin's Footsteps”, in Literary Review, section 403. From the entry pocket
  • Every little item such as omnibus fares or postage or a couple of coppers spent on newspapers, would be entered, and the balance struck every evening before going to bed.1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xvi. From the entry outstanding

Meaning of omnibus

  1. noun A bus (vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads).
  2. noun An anthology of previously released material linked together by theme or author, especially in book form.
  3. noun A broadcast programme consisting of all of the episodes of a serial that have been shown in the previous week.

Full definition of omnibus

Questions about omnibus in a sentence

How do you use omnibus in a sentence?
Omnibus is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “This work is an omnibus containing all books in the Remembrance of Earth’s Past series.”
What is a short sentence with omnibus?
“He must pay his omnibus himself.”
What does omnibus mean?
Omnibus means a bus (vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads).

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