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Example sentences for "trolley"

Lexicographically close words:
troisieme; troit; trolds; troll; trolled; trolleys; trolling; trollop; trollops; trolls
  1. It depends a good deal on what he means to do, but if he figures on clearing the jammed trolley there is a risk, especially to a man who has only one sound hand," he said.

  2. It should have come itself, but the sheave the trolley runs on must have jammed, or they haven't pulled all the kinks and snarls out of the rope.

  3. The attack having been postponed till two o'clock, Monty held an open-air Communion Service in Trolley Ravine.

  4. Read at Monty's service in Trolley Ravine, it sounded like a Special Order of the Day.

  5. They tell me no American girl who has ever seen a trolley car will go into a kitchen to work--she can't have her beaux going round to the back door.

  6. Thatcher, and his residence answered not at all; whereupon Harwood took the trolley for the Thatcher mansion in the new quarter of Meridian Street beyond the peaceful shores of Fall Creek.

  7. Once she had fainted when a favorite aunt had fallen from a trolley car.

  8. If he were attacked for raiding a trolley system, he felt that his intimates would declare, "You don't know him.

  9. They were these: "Dear Dick: Enos Duncaster is the name of the man who holds a lot of trolley stock.

  10. It's too bad, after all the work he put in on getting that trolley line in shape, to be threatened with the loss of it.

  11. It was Mr. Duncaster--the holder of the trolley stock.

  12. Both matters were important to Dick, for he realized that his father's interests, being now so much bound up in the trolley line, would suffer seriously if antagonists got in control.

  13. Of late Mr. Hamilton had put much money in an important trolley line, and had called in several other investments so that he might buy more of the stock.

  14. He realized the vital necessity of the Hamilton forces getting control of the trolley stock that Mr. Duncaster held.

  15. There is no trolley line to Hardvale," said Dick, "and a horse and carriage would be too slow.

  16. I want to talk to you about your trolley stock.

  17. When this trolley deal goes through, as it will, he'll be several millions better off.

  18. Couldn't we hire a horse and carriage, or go in a trolley car--trolleys are cheap.

  19. Dick was not especially friendly with them, but he now resolved to cultivate their acquaintance, at least long enough to see if he could get on the track of the men who were seeking to wrest the control of the trolley line from Mr. Hamilton.

  20. A rumour that we had been taken prisoners together with the trolley had preceded us; it had been brought in by the Irish Americans, and confirmed by a heliographic message from the commissary at Brandfort.

  21. Then he runs back 'n' yanks the trolley off, 'n' she begins to slow down.

  22. Pretty soon Orphy comes back 'n' jerks the trolley off 'n' we stop on a big square with a monument in the middle.

  23. I am so afraid she is run over by a trolley car," said Agnes, in distress.

  24. The organized class giving socials, entertainments, enjoying lectures and music, picnics, trolley parties, skating or camping has a decided influence for good on all the members.

  25. Good: The town has two railroads running through it, and also three trolley lines.

  26. Good: The town has two railroads and three trolley lines running through it.

  27. Railway companies, trolley companies, cable companies, and even hack lines were affected by the change.

  28. The river and the trolley run side by side the whole charming way, and, as you near Elmira, you come upon latticed barns that waft you the fragrance of drying tobacco-leaves, suspended longitudinally for the wind to play through.

  29. Shirley tilted her firm little chin at the thought, and declined to ride with Graham and Elizabeth the next time they called at the office for her, on the plea that she had promised to go home in the trolley with one of the office girls.

  30. Right on the trolley line, mother dear; and the difference in rent will more than pay our fare.

  31. It is on a little hill with the loveliest tree in front of it, and right on the trolley line.

  32. The next trolley brought Shirley and George, and again the mother was amazed to find how altogether free and easy seemed to be the relation between all these young people.

  33. We can go out in the trolley perfectly well, and not trouble you.

  34. I got out of the trolley on the way back, and went in.

  35. Maybe Elizabeth'll come along, and you'll have to go in the trolley with George.

  36. She must go in the trolley if she went at all.

  37. When the work was done the man and maid took the trolley back home again and the other old man servant arranged to make his Sabbath as pleasant as possible in the company of his brother from the near-by farm.

  38. Step lively, sir," might convey the same delicate regard from the trolley conductor as "Step lively, lady.

  39. Vagabonds sent on errands two miles away return after three hours with tales of the awful slowness of trolley cars.

  40. The Favorite Magazine was sold during August by enterprising newsboys on trolley cars.

  41. Day scorned the packed, parading trolley cars, and swung vigorously up the street.

  42. As he bowled along in the crowded trolley the thought stole through him, until it amounted almost to a conviction, that the great letter awaited him at home now.

  43. Assistant district attorney arises and explains the case to him.

  44. A cheerful way he had of adding variety to his life.

  45. Now, doubtless, Mr. Cole is a reader of newspapers.

  46. We'll probably have to disconnect our wires several times, whenever a trolley car comes past.

  47. And I'm going to have it fixed so I can take current from any trolley line, as well as from a regular charging station.

  48. I can charge from either the third rail or the trolley wire," declared Tom, who was insulating his hands in rubber gloves, and getting his wires ready.

  49. If we can get my car to the trolley tracks I can charge my battery from there.

  50. Maybe one of us could go somewhere on the trolley and get help.

  51. Will the electric trolley pull us to a charging station?

  52. Once outside the city, the trolley car bowled along at an exhilarating pace, and in spite of the prospects ahead, the girls were almost sorry when the ten-miles were up, and the breezy ride was ended.

  53. The four ate an early luncheon at Peggy's home, and then took the trolley for the outskirts of the city.

  54. He liked the night sounds, the clear notes of trolley bell and clattering hoofs unblurred by the undertone of shuffling feet.

  55. There ain't no trolley to where we're bound.

  56. I don't think the average college graduate is quite suited by temperament for the trolley service.

  57. They seemed a dull, bedraggled lot to Mr. Clatfield, just like every other lot who waited every night there for blue or red or yellow trolley cars.

  58. Roger and Helen and the Ethels and Dorothy came over from Rosemont when they could, but their daily work had to be done and they had only a few minutes to stay after the long trolley trip.

  59. I have an idea, too," offered Margaret who had come over on the trolley after school was over.

  60. Mrs. Hancock and Margaret had gone home by trolley because the doctor had to make a professional call on the way.

  61. The trolley brings them almost from their door to ours; but I don't feel so sure about the Watkinses.

  62. Billy's pa is free with dimes for trolley rides.

  63. Let's climb up the Palisades ag'in and take the trolley to the ferry,' says he.

  64. She could put me on the trolley and I'd get home in an hour.

  65. There is a train at two-forty-five, but that would be too late, and it takes nearly an hour by the trolley cars.


  66. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trolley" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    carriage; cart; electric; tram