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- noun Plural form of
trolley . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
trolley .
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Examples
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We took 2 tours on trolleys from the same street as the hotel (a bit of a walk to the trolley though).
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He sees the burgeoning urban interest in trolleys and other light rail, which often blocks car lanes and contributes to ground-level congestion, as "insane."
Back to the Future 2005
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He sees the burgeoning urban interest in trolleys and other light rail, which often blocks car lanes and contributes to ground-level congestion, as "insane."
Back to the Future 2005
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But Metro and downtown tourism officials hope the "trolleys" - actually just buses gussied up with trolley images - will get people taking mass transit to such downtown haunts as City
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But Metro and downtown tourism officials hope the "trolleys" - actually just buses gussied up with a graphic "wrap" featuring trolley images - will get more people to take mass transit to such downtown haunts as City Museum, America's Center and the Old Courthouse.
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Round the engine and at the starting-place of the trolleys was a busy crowd: lean and bronzed Canadians; women in leather breeches and coats, busily measuring and marking; a team of horses showing silvery white against the purple of the hill; and everywhere the German prisoner lads, mostly quite young and of short stature.
Harvest Humphry Ward 1885
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Americans are looking into alternative modes of transportation such as trolleys, trains, subways, and buses, which all showed a ridership increase, with the largest growth in major cities.
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Americans are looking into alternative modes of transportation such as trolleys, trains, subways, and buses, which all showed a ridership increase, with the largest growth in major cities.
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The Fox version seems only lightly adulterated the jousting contestants, while still riding shopping "trolleys" rather than "carts", suddenly became Americans, but has even shittier captioning.
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She saw the "trolleys" fly past her in quick succession, and it seemed to her they whizzed jeeringly at her as they sped.
The Governess Julie Mathilde Lippmann
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