Sentence examples for a car instead from inspiring English sources

So maybe you got a car instead of a raise.

Gittes has a car, instead of a horse.

While he was recovering, he traveled to work in a car instead of the usual subway.

None of the spots shows a car; instead, each features a member of the band Swedish House Mafia in a contemplative coastal setting.

Granny's bespectacled granddaughter, however, would prefer a more "normal-ish" grandmother, one who wears fancy clothes and drives a car instead of a broom.

It would be less surprising for most people to learn that I had built a car instead of a flying machine.

She insists that they rent a subcompact car instead of an S.U.V., a decision he regrets when they find themselves sandwiched between trucks in an Arkansas blizzard.

Driving a hybrid car instead of a gasoline car also imposes a positive externality of time saved, since less time would be spent at the gas pump, refueling the car.

In short, people are afraid of calling 911 and getting a ride in the back of a cop car instead of an ambulance, leading to thousands of unnecessary deaths every year.

On another occasion, a bleeding patient was transferred to a hospital in a private car instead of by ambulance.

They may have the right make and model, but they have a green car instead of a silver one, or they have a $2,000 navigation system when all they really wanted was leather seats.