Sentence examples for tin Lizzie from inspiring English sources
noun
The Ford Motor Company's Model T automobile.
The movie skips to 1911, when Daniel and H.W. are travelling around California in a tin lizzie, buying up land leases, at bargain rates, from ranchers and farmers who are sitting on underground oceans of gold.
What the Kops lacked in sense they made up for in zeal, as they dashed off to the chase on foot or drove off in a tin lizzie (one accommodated the entire force), in jerky, speeded-up tempo.
Ford's tin lizzie might have seemed the logical choice -- it did, after all, find 15 million buyers; put the motorcar within reach of the common man; made America a mobile society; set the stage for modern assembly-line manufacturing; and cemented Detroit's place at the center of the auto universe.
Fifty years later, hes part of a Tin Lizzie subculture.
Three-day tours start at $2,500 for two adults and include overnight stays at the Tin Lizzie Inn, massages to recover from the road, and an instructional video and driving lesson so you learn to work the three pedals.
The owner did call and in 2005, the Tin Lizzie was a part of the Memphis Group.
Lizzie Browne!, I stammered.
Lizzie Widdicombe reports.
