streetcar

noun

street·car ˈstrēt-ˌkär

: a vehicle on rails used primarily for transporting passengers and typically operating on city streets

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Take a streetcar on St. Charles Avenue or admire the live oaks in City Park or Audubon Park. —

Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 7 Feb. 2025 The story goes that two brothers, Benny and Clovis Martin, former streetcar workers who had opened a coffee stand, began feeding striking colleagues with big sandwiches stuffed into half loaves of bread. —

Katie Workman, Twin Cities, 3 Feb. 2025 Kansas City streetcar service was suspended around 8 a.m. Sunday. —

Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 5 Jan. 2025 History Colorado lists the Austin Building, built in 1904, as an example of business development along East Colfax Avenue — residential apartments over storefront retail space constructed to take advantage of the location along streetcar lines. —

Bruce Finley, The Denver Post, 27 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for streetcar