Sentence examples for tattered car from inspiring English sources

"I'm surprised the L isn't getting loved," said Mr. Ames, adding that he used to drive a tattered car to Williamsburg, park it, then take the L into Manhattan.

This, give or take, is what happened to Crazy Heart, the tale of a washed-up former country-music star called Bad Blake [Jeff Bridges] who meanders across the American West in a tattered estate car, performing at small-town bars and bowling alleys, getting sozzled in shabby motels, and aimlessly jumping into bed with a dodgy succession of ageing groupies.

One young couple, the Altheims, left quietly, walking down the short path from their mobile home to their car, with a tattered Israeli flag flying from the front window, and then drove off.

My first memory of visiting Manhattan was of sitting in the back seat of my mother's Volvo in the early '80s, watching her feed singles through the gapped window to tattered men who'd descended on the car with filthy rags and Windex.

Another rider walked gingerly toward his team car, the right leg of his shorts tattered and nearly gone after he, too, had tumbled onto the road.

Broadcast live Sunday night from the Microsoft Theater in downtown Los Angeles, the cable network's 15th-anniversary blowout felt proudly connected to reality from the get-go, beginning with a fierce performance by rapper Kendrick Lamar, who stood atop a bombed-out police car to deliver his song "Alright" as tattered American flags waved around him.

Wrap your coat a little tighter as you cross the Hampden Way car park and skirt the Shopmobility stand, where 35 tattered electric buggies huddle against a feral wind, and you are, suddenly, in Cromwell Street.

Banks are getting out of the leasing business in this tattered economy, since a bank cannot recoup its losses on a repossessed car sold at auction.

In my subway car, a crowd of men wearing identical bright red berets and holding tattered posters and furled banners, sang boisterous songs -- marchers on their way home from demonstrations at the Bastille, I figured.

A LINCOLN TOWN CAR pulls up in front of a supermarket in the rough and tattered Church Hill neighborhood of Richmond, Va.

Said car, a blue sedan that seemed to be missing windows and looked tattered if not burned-out, was seen hanging under a bridge in the Don Valley.