How to Use joyride in a Sentence

joyride

noun
  • Some teenager stole my car and took it for a joyride.
  • Talk to Bears alumni who have been on the joyride at its peaks.
    — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 27 Jan. 2022
  • The victims of his 119 mph joyride.
    — Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 20 May 2026
  • Others steal the car for a joyride, crash it into a tree and abandon it.
    — Quanta Magazine, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Dunking dogs is not some kind of midnight joyride where anything goes.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 26 Apr. 2022
  • An employee could have taken it for a joyride.
    — Christopher Elliott, Mercury News, 22 Dec. 2025
  • This is one big reason the franchise up to now has been such an escapist joyride.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Oct. 2021
  • To read through her archive there is to take a joyride with a woman less and less patient.
    — Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2021
  • The teenagers then took his car on an hours-long joyride after the shooting, police said.
    — oregonlive, 1 Jan. 2020
  • The parents didn't find out about the joyride until police called them after the crash.
    — Fox News, 3 June 2021
  • Many of the cars are recovered within a few days after the thieves are done with their joyrides.
    — Sam Sweeney, ABC News, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Often, teenagers take cars for joyrides and abandon them in Hartford.
    — Jesse Leavenworth, Courant Community, 10 July 2018
  • There are even plans to send four tourists on an orbital joyride aboard the vehicle later this year.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 13 Aug. 2021
  • The joyride ended with a customary burnout, as the rising star closed his big day in a cloud of smoke.
    — Time, 9 June 2026
  • The streetcar has been criticized as a tourist's toy or a joyride for people on the way to or from bars.
    — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 9 May 2018
  • The open-cockpit projectile was designed for high-speed, open-air joyrides on the street or track.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Yet on his Bitcoin joyride, the merry prankster’s got no more control than a drunk at the wheel.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 12 May 2022
  • Pierson told the station Boland would sometimes land on his farm and the two would go for a short joyride.
    — Fox News, 17 July 2021
  • Afterward, the teens went on a joyride in Jordan’s Lexus for days.
    — Michael Gordon, charlotteobserver, 12 July 2017
  • The historic joyride made Shatner the oldest person to reach space.
    — NBC News, 13 Oct. 2021
  • With sunny skies and not a rain cloud in sight, Saturday was a perfect day to go for a joyride.
    — Micah Walker, Detroit Free Press, 29 June 2019
  • And, yes, a few thousand more joyrides on Brazil’s unstoppable meme machine.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 25 June 2026
  • Twenty years ago, Les Bleus won their first World Cup, and took the world on a joyride.
    — Jonathan Tannenwald, Philly.com, 13 June 2018
  • For occasional joyrides, lighter, fresher colors will show less wear.
    — Beth Livesay, AJC.com, 6 Mar. 2026
  • But Ulf is this instinctive being who now has a Ferrari and is taking it for a joyride.
    — James Grebey, Vulture, 29 July 2024
  • The 19-year-old Waukesha man charged in a joyride that resulted in the death of his friend will not have to go to prison.
    — Jim Riccioli, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2021
  • Trey goes out for a joyride in his snowy mountain town when the power is down in town and his ankle bracelet is out — and then hits Charlie.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The Bears are charging into a season full of hope and yet the loose lug nut that caused last year’s joyride to crash and burn has still not been fixed.
    — Rich Campbell, chicagotribune.com, 24 July 2019
  • The men and women of Road Warriors for the Missing weren’t getting ready for a joyride.
    — Lauren Lantry, ABC News, 4 Sep. 2024
  • The joyride ended with a walk down the tunnel in a huff, the seething noticeable in Jonathan Quick’s waddle.
    — Curtis Zupke, latimes.com, 23 Oct. 2017

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