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  • noun Plural form of trolley.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of trolley.

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Examples

  • We took 2 tours on trolleys from the same street as the hotel (a bit of a walk to the trolley though).

    Best route, P�tzcuaro to Ixmiquilpan, Hidalgo? 2007

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

    STLtoday.com Top News Headlines 2010

  • 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.

    STLtoday.com Top News Headlines 2010

  • 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

  • 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.

    As gas prices increase, consumption decreases 2008

  • 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.

    As gas prices increase, consumption decreases 2008

  • 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.

    Fox's Banzai - Anil Dash 2003

  • 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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