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Automobiles
Definition
Automobiles are vehicles that are designed to transport people on roads.
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- driving automobiles
- parking automobiles
- buying automobiles
- selling automobiles
- automobile industry
- automobile insurance
- automobile accidents
- automobile manufacturing
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Usage note
Automobiles is a formal term. In everyday conversation, 'cars' is much more common. The plural 'automobiles' is rarely used in informal contexts.
Example sentences
- My dad drives an automobile to work every day.
- I saw a lot of different automobiles at the car show.
- Automobiles need gasoline to run.
- There are many different colors of automobiles.
- I want to learn how to drive an automobile when I am older.
Quotes
The automobile has not merely taken over the street, it has dissolved the living tissue of the city. - James Marston Fitch
The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns. - Brock Yates
People always ask me how long a song takes to write, and I always say, 'I don't know, I'm still writing it.' I don't know when it's done. It's just done when it's done. It's like an automobile, you don't know when it's gonna quit on you. - Dolly Parton
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