roadster

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Recent Examples of roadster Gearing ratios are all short, in typical roadster fashion. New Atlas, 6 Dec. 2025 Manos drives a 1960 Mercedes 300 SL roadster, a $500,000 to $750,000 convertible favored in its day by Tony Curtis, Clark Gable and Elvis Presley. Brett Berk, HollywoodReporter, 23 Nov. 2025 Decades later, the affordable roadster is a sports car staple because of its driving dynamics and availability to average car buyers. Charles Singh, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025 This is what a quarter-million dollars of roadster looks and feels like. Mark Phelan, Freep.com, 18 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for roadster
Recent Examples of Synonyms for roadster
Noun
  • The 1934 Packard LeBaron all-weather cabriolet was designed to be driven by a chauffeur.
    Eric D. Lawrence, USA Today, 28 Nov. 2025
  • The coupe will start at $272,650 and the cabriolet at $286,650, an increase of around $30,000 and $40,000, respectively.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Until the last couple of episodes, everything appears to be ripping along like a brand-new two-horse phaeton on a bright spring day.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 13 June 2024
  • An open touring car, a phaeton conveyed the essence of speed and performance, and was built for real sporting types.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 26 Sep. 2022
Noun
  • Oceanside fire crews rescued the driver of a semi-truck that crashed on Interstate 5 near Harbor Drive early Wednesday, leaving the cab dangling 70 feet above the San Luis Rey River in Oceanside.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2026
  • My husband's father was a cab driver.
    Danielle Parker, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • High jinks ensue, including a hilarious scene in the Big Game with a scampering dog and a chariot chase.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 6 Feb. 2026
  • But the main focus of the chariot race, and of all television really, is what’s happening on the actors’ faces.
    Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 27 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Instead, the bare-bones Lancia, with its buckboard-short 85.8-inch wheelbase, iffy fiberglass bodywork and minimalist cockpit, was aimed squarely at rally competition.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 16 Aug. 2021
  • The suspension mods make the Dinan drive hard and thrashy, stiff as a Bavarian buckboard.
    Dan Neil, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2017
Noun
  • The royal couple was transported to the senate in the grandest of royal ways: in a landau carriage escorted by a troupe from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Musical Ride in their bright red tunics.
    Simon Perry, People.com, 27 May 2025
  • It's also understood that King Charles, 75, will attend Trooping the Colour amid his own cancer treatment, and conduct the review while seated in an Ascot landau carriage alongside Queen Camilla.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 30 May 2024
Noun
  • Such vehicles were nothing new: Chariots came from the Romans, the curricle chair applied to royalty, and the French post chaise became the one-horse shay.
    Brenda Yenke, cleveland.com, 7 Feb. 2018
Noun
  • Sometimes Pearl reads like Gulliver netted by the Lilliputians, tossing in a troubled sleep on the poolside chaise.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026
  • But if your space isn’t conducive to an L-shape, this chaise-less silhouette is 20% off in its gray performance textile and ivory wool bouclé upholsteries.
    Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 10 Feb. 2026

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“Roadster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roadster. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.

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