(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.
Rollercoaster
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s unthinkable that they wouldn’t do that.” The Saw ride at Thorpe Park in Surrey and the Dragon’s Fury and Rattlesnake rollercoasters at Chessington World of Adventures, also in Surrey, have also been shut down by Merlin Entertainments, which owns all three parks.
(2) A student who lost her leg in the Alton Towers rollercoaster crash says she has been given a new lease of life by a hi-tech prosthetic leg and that she is stronger for her harrowing experience.
(3) When I was younger I was up and down like a rollercoaster.
(4) Now that the rollercoaster has dipped many are surveying the scene, and the strongest candidates are a former regime man (Amr Moussa, also ex-head of that club of dictators otherwise known as the Arab League), and a former Muslim Brotherhood man (Abdel-Moneim Aboul-Fotouh , who was kicked out of the movement back in the day when it still maintained that it wouldn't contest the presidency).
(5) HSBC’s shares have been on a rollercoaster ride since Gulliver and departing chairman Douglas Flint took charge six years ago, and are little changed from where they started out.
(6) (“Get your tissues ready: It’s time for an emotional rollercoaster.”) His mum, Figen, he wrote on his feed , had told him she was having a bad day because she had taken a stall at a craft fair and no one had bought any of her knitted creations.
(7) Steel was left with what she called a “complete rollercoaster of emotions” not knowing whether he was alive or dead.
(8) Harman said this morning that Ed Miliband's victory, and the decision by his defeated brother, David, to step down from frontline politics, had resulted in a "real rollercoaster" of an event.
(9) Some fear-stoking simply goes too far: we don't mind being scared (we actually enjoy the experience of a rollercoaster ride) but child abduction, no thanks.
(10) A 20-year-old woman who suffered serious injuries in a rollercoaster crash at Alton Tower has had her leg amputated.
(11) My life has been a bit of a rollercoaster, to say the least, over the last couple of years.
(12) Alton Towers is to open what it claims is the world’s first rollercoaster that combines a physical ride with virtual reality, giving passengers a “customised journey into space” via headsets that use groundbreaking technology.
(13) In 12 to 18 months’ time I believe Alton Towers will be back to where it was.” He offered no update on the future of the Smiler rollercoaster.
(14) Alton Towers to open 'groundbreaking' virtual reality rollercoaster Read more The Staffordshire theme park was beginning its first season since 16 people were injured in the Smiler accident , with its owner hoping to make a fresh start in spite of opposition from some of the victims.
(15) "We cannot permanently ride a rollercoaster on Greece; we have to know where things are going, and the Greeks have to tell us where they would like things to go," he told German ZDF television.
(16) "With the dramatic undersupply of homes making finding a stable place to live increasingly unaffordable, we need to see the government put the brakes on our rollercoaster housing market and commit to building the affordable homes that we desperately need."
(17) That’s not because the numbers might be disappointing (and they probably will be) but because the company is the owner of Alton Towers, the theme park where last month’s horrific rollercoaster accident left four people seriously injured.
(18) In this rollercoaster political world, photographs of the happy occasion were released by North Korean state media on the same day that London Olympic organisers were forced to explain how they allowed the South Korean flag to be pictured on big screens at Glasgow's Hampden Park ahead of the North Korean women's football match against Colombia.
(19) As analysts predicted a weakened Reuters potentially falling prey to a rival, Grigson and Glocer survived several rollercoaster years of plunging stock prices.
(20) It’s like having your own private rollercoaster.” Tesla customers weren’t asking to go faster, he added, but the company wanted to see if they could do it.