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How to pronounce trolley in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms streetcar, tram, tramcar, trolley car
Type of self-propelled vehicle
Has types horsecar

Examples of trolley

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She says everything she puts in the trolley is like a little present to herself.
From the independent.co.uk
Freeways replaced trolley tracks, and huffing buses took over for electric rail.
From the sfgate.com
Maybe, Betty Kovach hoped, a talent scout riding the trolley might discover her.
From the newsobserver.com
It's one of the neighborhoods built originally to accommodate trolley commuting.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Trolley service available Saturday and Sunday to festival from Spring Hill Mall.
From the dailyherald.com
Historic trolley tour of downtown Sarasota leaves at 2 p.m. from Crocker Church.
From the heraldtribune.com
The trolley charters in December to view the holiday lights are always sellouts.
From the ocregister.com
Once you run off that trolley track, you can of course make all sorts of claims.
From the evangelicaloutpost.com
Premium had a couple taking drinks from a trolley pushed by a uniformed hostess.
From the guardian.co.uk
More examples
  • Streetcar: a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity
  • Among horse-drawn vehicles, a trolley was a goods vehicle with a platform body with four small wheels of equal size, mounted underneath it, the front two on a turntable undercarriage. The wheels were rather larger and the deck proportionately higher than those of a lorry. ...
  • A tram, tramcar (British English), streetcar or trolley car (American English) is a railborne vehicle which - at least in parts of its route - runs on tracks in streets. ...
  • Trolley is an island platformed UTA TRAX light rail station in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The station was opened on December 15, 2001, and is operated by the Utah Transit Authority. ...
  • A cart or shopping cart; A hand truck; A soapbox car; A gurney; A single-pole device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electical line usually for a streetcar; A streetcar or a system of streetcars; A light rail system or a train on such a system; To bring to by trolley; To ...
  • (Trolleys) A transit mode comprised of electric rubber-tired passenger vehicles, manually steered and operating singly on city streets. Vehicles are propelled by a motor drawing current through overhead wires via trolleys, from a central power source not onboard the vehicle.
  • The unit carrying the hoisting mechanism.
  • Traveling block used in a skyline (24).
  • A two wheeled device used to aid the carrying of a golf bag around the course.