surrey

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Recent Examples of surrey When Tran rang it, Daisy and Kelsey pulled up in a surrey. Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2024 The clanging warning that a family in a four-wheel surrey pedicab is rolling up behind you. Tim Ebner, Washington Post, 10 July 2024 Karen delighted in a ride on a surrey cycle pedaled by Erik and his girlfriend, Renee Aguilar. Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2021 Only instead of a surrey with a fringe on the top, there’s an ice cream stand and a small store that sells fresh produce and a restaurant that serves the freshest foods. BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2021 The actual surrey with the fringe on top shown in the movie is on display at Jerome State Historic Park. Roger Naylor, azcentral, 12 Dec. 2019 Bici Pincio rentals, just inside the park entrance, offered the ideal solution for a family of five: the surrey-style Risciò Max ($22 first hour, other bikes from $4.50). Shelly Rivoli, latimes.com, 11 July 2019 Old-time Pearlanders wrote of Zychlinski, rumored to be a Polish nobleman, traveling the dirt streets of Pearland in a fancy surrey pulled by a pair of shiny black, high stepping horses. Jaimy Jones, Houston Chronicle, 19 June 2018 Bike rentals: cruisers, tandems, choppers, quad sports, deuce coupes, four-wheel surrey bikes. The Courier-Journal, 26 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for surrey
Noun
  • Acceptable modes of transit include a 1969 Mini Cooper, any model of Range Rover that Prince Philip once drove, or a hackney carriage.
    Simon Webster, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Feinberg is still driving under the same hackney carriage medallion that he was issued in 1975, according to police.
    Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2018
Noun
  • The session also featured the debut of a teaser trailer for the coming season, including the first look at Daniel Diemer as Tyson, the cyclops who befriends Percy (Walker Scobell), and a very brief glimpse at a chariot race at camp.
    Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 24 July 2025
  • And yet, everyone says the true standout scenes of the season actually take place back at Camp Half-Blood: the chariot races.
    EW.com, EW.com, 22 July 2025
Noun
  • The show culminated with Jon shouting out a string of moves — the A-Town stomp, the muscle, the thunder clap, the rockaway — as more dancers flooded the stage.
    Jason Lamphier, EW.com, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Beres Hammond: The reggae star comes to rockaway as part of his Never Ending Tour.
    Trevor Fraser, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Aug. 2019
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
  • Twin Pines history The Janssen family said that Twin Pines started after World War II, and its first deliveries were made by horse and buggy.
    Emma George-Griffin, Freep.com, 25 July 2025
  • Current Russian strategy, for example, relies on small groups of troops on buggies, bikes, and foot advancing in the knowledge that most will not reach Ukrainian lines but that enough might to occupy some new ground.
    Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • John Ford’s film made a star of John Wayne as the Ringo Kid, a fugitive from the law who’s called upon to protect a stagecoach traveling through dangerous territory.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 18 July 2025
  • Visitors often spent a week or more traveling by stagecoach or train to reach the resort.
    Brittany Anas, Denver Post, 9 July 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
  • If Austen had ever conceived one of her novels as a Regency Bachelorette, with the suitors driving up in barouches, the unmarried heroine would have ordered them all to turn around and go home.
    Tom Gliatto, People.com, 19 July 2025
  • Guests arriving by train were met and returned to the station by an open barouche, a six-horse tallyho that brought them to the three-story-high wooden structure with a roof of gray-red-peach bottom slate, that was modeled after Swiss Alpine hotels.
    Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 11 July 2023

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“Surrey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surrey. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.

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