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Example sentences for "trolleys"

Lexicographically close words:
troit; trolds; troll; trolled; trolley; trolling; trollop; trollops; trolls; trolly
  1. The trolleys run under the overarching trees between the lawns, flanked by gravelled footpaths between flower-beds, and you take the cars or not as you like.

  2. On Sundays the trolleys bring those who are not too tired to so spend the day.

  3. The trolleys take them to their work, the trains transport the products of the mills.

  4. Electric trolleys are soon to be running at Shanghai and Tientsin.

  5. No trolleys are to be seen in the streets, and four-wheeled carriages are rare and recent.

  6. But will they not see it when the trolleys run?

  7. We're listening now for the hum of the trolleys almost any day.

  8. I'm a shine for overlooking that bet so long, but when we get through this voyage of joy, just watch my trolleys buzz.

  9. I tell you, Joe, you don't appreciate how lucky you are to live in woods like this, instead of a city with trolleys grinding and typewriters clacking and people bothering the life out of you all the time!

  10. The hall was over a delicatessen shop, in a street banging with trolleys and smelling of onions and gasoline and fried fish.

  11. Then the business center, the thickening darting traffic, the crammed trolleys unloading, and high doorways of marble and polished granite.

  12. Boats were beginning to thicken on the Lake and the clang of incessantly arriving trolleys announced the return of the crowds from the ball-field.

  13. The trolleys roaring out from Nettleton became great luminous serpents coiling in and out among the trees.

  14. The street was so thronged that progress was slow; but the glory of sitting in the little carriage while it wriggled its way between laden omnibuses and trolleys made the moments seem too short.

  15. One of them, The Union Electric, had the trolleys and the street lighting; the other had been longer on the ground, was called The Transport Company, and owned the inland railroad and the principal line of steamers in the harbour.

  16. Cars, taxis, trucks, wagons, trolleys were parked crazily all over the place.

  17. The roofs of the trolleys were jammed with groups of students and motormen waving flags or the banners of their student societies and their unions.

  18. How many square miles of the people's thoughts can he spread out at breakfast tables, lift up in a thousand thousand trolleys before their faces?

  19. Although in recent years double overhead trolleys have largely disappeared, some of them are still in use both in America and in Europe.

  20. I was thinking, as we crowded in there from the outside, with our lives in our hands, through all those trolleys and autos and carriages and cabs and sidewalk ticket-brokers, of the first time I saw this piece.

  21. Bloemfontein, carrying off our prisoners and wounded on trolleys drawn by mules.

  22. A big dark-gray cloak, a blanket, and a waterproof tent canvas, which theoretically are supposed to be carried on the back in two little rolls, are as a fact transported on trolleys drawn by mules marching on the left of each company.

  23. Then the boldest of the mob, who still lingered, sullenly gave way, West Street was cleared, and on the wider thoroughfare the long line of traffic, the imprisoned trolleys began to move again.

  24. Pavel," he yelled in Russian, "have the starter trolleys been engaged yet?

  25. Pavel told me the starter trolleys were engaged," Androv said in Russian as he climbed through, then stepped down.

  26. Often his eyes had wandered to the window, through which came the crisp clip-trip-clop of the cab horses on the asphalt, the irritant clang of trolleys and the monstrous panther purr of motors.

  27. The manifold calls of the street and the buzz of trolleys made a dull tonal background, subdued and far-away.

  28. Panama is a jitney town, and the honk of the never-silent horn punctuates the clang and dash of the trolleys and automobiles down a fifteen-foot street in a mad race to see which can get through first.

  29. Were it not for the incessant clatter of the trolleys and jitneys the place would be a good rest-cure.

  30. We had plenty of grief when our trolleys would slip off the rails and into a foot or two of mud alongside.

  31. As the work progressed we would often screw wooden rails to the floors of galleries, and then use small rubber-tired trolleys or cars to move our sand-bags from the face.

  32. Our lager was moved from Tafelkop to Rietpan, from whence a few hundred of our horsemen started with some guns and a few trolleys for Groot Kafferkraal, in Hartbeestfontein district.

  33. We rode on, inquiring everywhere after the trolleys and the commissariat.

  34. The trolleys and waggons that had to cross to the lager on the opposite side gave us much trouble, as they sank deep into the sand.

  35. You have enough faith in miracles, Eugene--granting that trolleys and bicycles and automobiles are miracles.

  36. This town's already spreading; bicycles and trolleys have been doing their share, but the automobile is going to carry city streets clear out to the county line.

  37. The "elevated" trains and electric trolleys are overcrowded, certainly; but you can always find a place in them, and they carry you so rapidly that the discomfort is rendered as little irksome as possible.

  38. We can reach it by trolleys and walking, with an occasional rikisha ride between trolley lines, better than to try to do it all by rikisha from here.

  39. General Botha immediately advanced against them, whilst a small number of burghers went with the trolleys we had to the farm of Mr. Taljaart.

  40. This was slow work on account of the cannon, the ammunition waggons, and a couple of trolleys carrying provisions.

  41. The car is designed with the object of loading halves of beef suspended from trolleys and left hanging in the car while in transit so that it may be quickly removed at destination.

  42. My messages are printed in the newspapers and read hurriedly, mostly by men in trolleys or railroad-cars.

  43. In that way, with only an hour's work each month, you can get your views, correctly stated, before this vast audience when it is not in trolleys or railroadcars.

  44. What have the trolleys accomplished which the steam roads could not do?

  45. The interurban trolleys are doing much that the steam roads cannot do, connecting vast rural sections which hitherto have been aside from the beaten paths of life.


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