Sentence examples for sleigh from inspiring English sources

The word 'sleigh' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a vehicle on runners for transporting people (especially at Christmastime), for example: "The children delightedly clambered into the sleigh, excited for their upcoming adventure."

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sleigh

noun

A vehicle, generally pulled by an animal, which moves over snow or ice on runners, used for transporting persons or goods.

  • Santa travels in a sleigh.

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One particularly triumphalist message doing the rounds across Belfast and beyond has a festive feel to it: "Sleigh bells ring, are you listening, the union flag has gone missing, the Huns smashed up the town as the crown rag came down, walking in a Fenian wonderland".

I hope you're not just going to lazily throw some sleigh bells over the top of it … That's what E17 did and it worked an absolute killer.

Other small farms in the area make cheese and offer sleigh rides to make ends meet.For the moment, however, Mr Pomeroy's lot is better than it might be.

Eight miniature golden reindeer lead a well-stuffed sleigh across the mantle; red bows are tied around everything upright that will hold them; holly branches garland pictures; and red-and-white striped candles are ready to be lit.

There were sleigh rides, fireworks and the first Italian opera ever performed in Germanic lands.

Science suggests he has an ultra-high-tech operation beneath the North Pole that uses an algorithm about time zones and a stealth sleigh with cloaking technology to give his millions of elves 18 seconds to spend in each houseThe site of America's elections In just under a year's time, Americans will vote on whether to keep Barack Obama in office for a second term.

In my old neighbourhood in Brooklyn people festooned their houses with reindeer, Santa on his sleigh, strings of lights in all the many colours of the Italian flag, even, a couple of blocks away, an inflatable Frosty the Snowman that rose and fell all night on a mechanised pump.

THE man who created the world's most valuable brand remains an elusive figure when not in his grotto, often shielded by the tinted windows of a personalised executive sleigh that serves as his mobile office.

Bing Crosby and Nat King Cole once crooned of sleigh bells and roasting chestnuts to a whole nation.

Streams flow slowly, trending, for the most part, either north or south and providing an easy mode of transport by river boat in summer and by sleigh in winter.

On Christmas Eve he loads his sleigh with toys and flies around the world, drawn by eight reindeer, stopping at each child's house; he slides down the chimney and leaves the gifts, refreshing himself with the milk and cookies left for him by the household's children.

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