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Example sentences for "stagecoaches"

Lexicographically close words:
staffing; staffs; stag; stage; stagecoach; stagecraft; staged; stager; stagers; stages
  1. Slow stagecoaches gave place to fast ones, splendidly horsed and "tooled," until travelling by road in England was pronounced almost perfect.

  2. Hence the writer loudly called for the immediate suppression of stagecoaches as a great nuisance and crying evil.

  3. This Hull vehicle did not run in winter, because of the state of the roads; stagecoaches being usually laid up in that season like ships during Arctic frosts.

  4. It is interesting in this connection to look again back to the mother-country and note the unrest which was occasioned by the introduction of stagecoaches on the bridle-paths of England.

  5. Neither the English stagecoaches nor Stephenson's railroad could have been very comfortable, to judge from your descriptions of them," laughed Steve.

  6. I am not so sure that I should not have liked stagecoaches better.

  7. Ohio took advantage of Pennsylvania's experience and passed a law that passengers on stagecoaches be obliged to pay toll.

  8. As stagecoaches multiplied they were used as mail wagons, the Government paying the stage company a sum of money for carrying the mail pouches.

  9. Walking and horseback riding are indulged in only for pleasure and health; stagecoaches are used only for short lines where the railroad has not yet come; but all the long-distance traveling is now done behind the locomotive.

  10. The cars were merely stagecoaches made to run on rails, and in no way were the passengers protected from the smoke and cinders of the burning wood.

  11. The town of Plymouth had been settled nearly a hundred years before the first line of stagecoaches in any part of the country was put in operation.

  12. Gone are the stagecoaches and their drivers!

  13. The Overland stagecoaches were operated at a loss until 1862.

  14. Not that I mean real robbers like used to hold up the stagecoaches here in the park," she explained.

  15. Stagecoaches had come in, and a line ran regularly between New York and Philadelphia.

  16. From them the stagecoaches departed, and before their doors auctions were often held, and in the great room within were posted public notices of all sorts.

  17. Lines of stagecoaches were established, and the coaches were soon followed by horse cars, which ran on iron tracks laid in the streets.

  18. The cars were hardly more than stagecoaches with flanged wheels.


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