(n.) A light, four-wheeled vehicle, usually with one seat, and with or without a calash top.
Example Sentences:
(1) Removing a sleeping child from a buggy may be inconvenient, but it is not likely to be as inconvenient for a parent as it would be for a wheelchair user to be prevented from boarding.
(2) He was sitting in his buggy in the hall, his face, hands and clothes smeared with chocolate.
(3) "When both the lifts weren't working they did say that if you were pregnant, had a health problem or a baby in a buggy you could use the main entrance," she said.
(4) Boutik Services (+33 6 0958 0988) in 1850 has cots, booster seats, changing tables, buggies and child skis for hire.
(5) The place was teeming with families and young children, and yet despite my best efforts to find one, I was pleased to note there didn't seem to be a Bugaboo buggy in sight.
(6) The plug-in architecture is a security nightmare, and a source of numerous breaches through which buggy or malicious code was able to reach into users’ computers and compromise them.
(7) Nor was it about whether parents in the wheelchair space with a child in a folding buggy should fold their buggies in order to make way for a wheelchair user: of course they should, if possible.
(8) We are supposed to have them by our early 30s at the latest – and not with some nobody we met on Tinder, but with a long-term partner who’ll push a buggy occasionally.
(9) Companies promise a trip like no other, with buggy tours lasting two days and one evening, 'long enough,' one brochure states, 'for nature enthusiasts to keep their excitement, but not too long to the point of monotony.'
(10) South of Newquay, Perranporth is great for activities from surfing and riding to powerkiting, landboarding and buggy riding.
(11) New parents also face a £9,152 bill during the first twelve months of their new baby's life, taking into account expenditure on equipment such as buggies, cots and prams etc.
(12) But local people say they had video evidence that it was not sabotage but a Shell contractor working in a buggy which struck the pipeline.
(13) But is it reasonable to give people in wheelchairs priority over people pushing buggies?
(14) As we leave her office, a half-naked child wanders into the corridor, and then the lift stops outside the in-house nursery for Jenny Willott, a Liberal Democrat whip, who is pushing two small children in a double buggy.
(15) There's lots of buggies in the world and it will have one, so don't worry about it.'"
(16) That's a logical falsehood, of course – akin to believing a challenge to the horse-and-buggy industry is a challenge to transportation itself – but it's a scary thought and therefore produces an extreme defensive response (government, do something!).
(17) She couldn't work the next buggy for love or money, so she wandered the streets looking for another similar model, found one, begged for guidance from the owners, which they kindly gave her, but by the time she got home she'd forgotten her instructions.
(18) Other photographs show the US troops boarding a blue and white-striped passenger plane and driving a yellow dune buggy.
(19) While better educated staff may be very welcome when it comes to playing imaginative games with children, or introducing them to the alphabet, there's no substitute for pairs of hands to do up little buttons, push buggies and give out cuddles.
(20) It’s about representing the people.” Suddenly we are almost bowled over by the man himself at the wheel of a golf buggy, heading for the nearby driving range where a few hundred locals on picnic rugs and folding chairs are waiting for a free concert by an Elvis impersonator.
Pram
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Prame
Example Sentences:
(1) The three young men were trying to get to grips with a troubling scene in which they lark about with a baby in its pram, poking it, pulling off its nappy, goading each other until they stone it to death.
(2) If you have young kids, bring a booster seat, as prams and pushchairs aren't allowed inside.
(3) Parish's (1972) Revised PRAM II did not detect any change, but Williams' (1971) PRAM II demonstrated a significant reduction in anti-Afro-American attitudes for those Ss who received 8 conditioning sessions.
(4) Prams triggered low-grade, non-specific anxiety: they were vehicles of entrapment.
(5) At our best we use it to spur on creativity, at our worst we launch our toys out of the pram and become drama queens instead of dramatists, citing conspiracy theories and the powers that be for destroying our work.
(6) Her baby daughter was also kitted out in Burberry, and Westbrook had a beige-check pram.
(7) Pickup, now 71, recalls the "horrible, infinitesimal detail of how accurate you had to be, partly because you didn't want stones bouncing off the pram into the audience".
(8) I mention David Miliband (whose claim for a £199 pram was rejected) and Jack Straw (who paid only half the amount of council tax he claimed back in allowances over four years – he apologised and repaid the difference).
(9) From there, it was a short hop to the repopularisation of the kind of archetypes that, in the 80s, were the preserve of boneheaded Tory MPs - not least that of the "Pram Face", defined on the website Urban Dictionary as "a girl who is a little rough round the edges and wouldn't look at all out of place at 14 years of age pushing a newborn through a council estate".
(10) New parents also face a £9,152 bill during the first twelve months of their new baby's life, taking into account expenditure on equipment such as buggies, cots and prams etc.
(11) The kindergarten teacher suffered a 5cm gash to her right hand, after intervening to stop a firework exploding in her three-year-old’s pram.
(12) These criminals are putting knives in kids hands, and the prams.
(13) The best casual game designers never assume that the player's attention will be fully on the game; they may be on the bus or even pushing a pram.
(14) Pavements and public transport become yours (I was once asked to get off a bus so a woman with a pram could get on, but let's not re-enact that ugly scene here) and the world can't get enough of you.
(15) Some claim that the pram in the hall is the enemy of art.
(16) The camera cuts back to show that alongside her in the gloom are other figures – but these are swathed in burkas, pushing prams.
(17) With the benefit of hindsight, Kid A's wilful racket now recalls the clatter of a rattle being thrown from a pram.
(18) I run in the dark with my iPod in full view and, like most Danish mothers, I would leave Liv sleeping in a pram outside a cafe.
(19) Three cases of accidental strangulation of children in prams are described.
(20) But that's very British – pram races, sea-boot races and a Jack in the Green festival that has very ancient roots.