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Example sentences for "perambulator"

Lexicographically close words:
perambulate; perambulated; perambulating; perambulation; perambulations; perambulators; peraps; perate; perated; perating
  1. Besides, it was a perambulator and not a pony carriage that Mr. Kenion must now buy.

  2. When the service was over, and a group had assembled round the perambulator at the church gate, and all were offering congratulations to the proud mother, old Mrs. Kenion gently drew Mrs. Marsden aside and spoke to her in urgent entreaty.

  3. Could one get a decent perambulator in Mallingbridge, or would one have to go fagging up to London?

  4. The perambulator was her excuse for stopping.

  5. May exclaimed, 'the perambulator will go into the lift, after all.

  6. By the time the bower was finished and the perambulator ready for its customary occupant that young person was in a position to claim heavy damages.

  7. She removed her sister from the perambulator and staggered back in a sitting posture with suddenness and force.

  8. And when one of the babies in the perambulator began to cry, the schoolmaster lifted it out and hushed it to sleep again.

  9. The father pushed the perambulator with the baby, the other children clung to the hands and skirts of the mother.

  10. As for Mr. Curtis, I no more thought of protectin' him than I would think of protectin' a baby in a perambulator from its nursemaid!

  11. Stepping backward, he lifted the front wheels, and with Lily's help pulled the perambulator on to the little porch and over the threshold into the house--which always shone with immaculate neatness and ugly comfort.

  12. Defendant, who was drunk, was wheeling a perambulator and pushed it in front of a lorry, with the result that the perambulator was overturned and the baby in it thrown out.

  13. She would sit by his perambulator for hours, and if any stranger came near, she barked in her little, shrill voice.

  14. Alan indicated an empty perambulator standing outside one of the houses.

  15. She would sing, too, of the ride in the perambulator and of the ladies who paid her compliments as she passed.

  16. A neat maid in a cap pushes a garden-roller over the path, or a perambulator with a never-failing baby in it.

  17. Of course the labour of the perambulator had soon fallen to the man; but the two nurses, who had been forced to walk a mile, had thought that they would never come to the end of their journey.

  18. The child was brought up in a perambulator which had at first been pushed by the under-nurse, an Italian, and accompanied by the upper-nurse, who was of course an Italian also.

  19. The devotion that first possessed her when she beheld the twins as babies in the perambulator still held sway against all their evil actions.

  20. Delia, with a quick glance to left and right, lowered the perambulator to the road-level and forged ahead.

  21. Even as Caroline caught her breath, he flew by her like an arrow, his blue eyes round with surprise under a whirl of white parasol, the wicker body of the perambulator swaying and lurching.

  22. Misunderstood by the crowd was Mrs. Trudge, who wheeled a perambulator containing two babies.

  23. Then suddenly his glance fell on the little sister still in her perambulator under the big tree, and his eyes filled with tears.

  24. A bouncing youngster leaned out of its perambulator to dance its arms.

  25. A white nurse passed them, tilting a white perambulator down a flight of white stone stairs.

  26. Out on the sun-swept lawn, the white perambulator and the white nurse just ahead, Lilly broke into a run.

  27. It was excruciating duty, with the raven-haired Rose wheeling her perambulator along the opposite way and keeping, by way of feminine perversity, on a latitudinal line with the patrolling of Michael Phelan.

  28. I followed them up last night, unbeknown to them, to see would he get out of the perambulator when he was clear of the town and nobody to notice him.

  29. A grand piano, and a perambulator tied in a knot were trying to get down through a coal chute.

  30. You must not think, however, that he was a coward, for he came back next night with a crust in one hand and a stick in the other, but the perambulator had gone, and he never saw another one.

  31. The Runaway Perambulator I sometimes met David in public places such as the Kensington Gardens, where he lorded it surrounded by his suite and wearing the blank face and glass eyes of all carriage-people.

  32. I call it my perambulator, and really, with Ninette hitched in, I am like an overgrown baby in its baby carriage, and any nurse I ever knew would push a perambulator faster than that donkey drags mine.

  33. So, when Ninette brought my perambulator to the gate, there was Père, in his veston and casquette, determined to go with me and see me through.

  34. Solomon, having assured himself that the party in the perambulator was still breathing, crossed his legs and lit his pipe.

  35. What--" A voice from the perambulator beside him broke the thread of Solomon Appleyard's discourse.

  36. He refused them, and ordered her to wheel baby's perambulator away, as they desired to be alone.

  37. A short-frocked edition of Charles also regards them placidly; a perambulator edition is squeaking; a third edition is expected shortly.

  38. They left the perambulator in the courtyard and made a slow journey up the stairs to her nice flat on the first floor.

  39. You ask for a perambulator as if it were a sixpenny-ha'penny toy!

  40. She won't want a new perambulator every day, we'll hope.

  41. With two babies to dress, she rose earlier; she swept and dusted and cooked quicker; she sent Osborn off to his work as punctually as before; she wheeled two infants instead of one out in the grey perambulator to the open-air market.

  42. And she had thought more than once how beautiful it would be to own one, sitting in its well-built perambulator with the clean white lacy covers and cushions, and the starched nurse primly wheeling it.

  43. A perambulator was being rapidly pushed up the slope by a breathless girl.

  44. Constance dived into the recesses of the perambulator and extricated from its cocoon the centre of the universe, and scrutinized him with quiet passion, and then rushed with him into the house, though not a drop of rain had yet fallen.

  45. But by and by, lurching free, he wobbled across the road to within an inch of a perambulator with two children which another man was pushing.

  46. For instance, I could not help listening to a woman who was pushing her baby in a perambulator down the hill.

  47. The drunken man leant over it, poised like an impending fate, and so hung for a few seconds before he staggered away, and it might be supposed that at least the man with the perambulator would be indignant.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perambulator" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.