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Wiktionary
- n. alternative spelling of trolley bus.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a passenger bus with an electric motor that draws power from overhead wires
Examples
“In the former Eastern Bloc city where I am living, where people are pretty far from having “American middle class attitudes”, whatever these are supposed to be, if you talk to people about getting around, there is a pretty definite mental hierarchy: a train is better than a tram, a tram is better than a trolleybus, a trolleybus is better than a bus, and a bus is better than crawling.”
“Metro did a study of a rapid ride trolleybus network that is much less expensive than any steel rail system.”
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“Carl Schulz first noticed there was something unusual about his son Charles when he noticed him, aged two, drawing everything he passed with his finger in the condensation of the trolleybus window.”
“Despite the rococo cupolas of St. Andrew and the Marie Palace, which the younger Rastrelli had designed in 1762, the profusion of theatres, the trolleybus lines, which were inaugurated in 1892, it was impossible to forget that Kiev was the capital of an immensely vast field of buckwheat and rye.”
“Below, in the tar of a November night, a trolleybus, like an awkward insect, crawls past a shuttered newspaper kiosk where the news has all grown old since this morning.”
“This is one of the only two trolleybus lines existing in Japan-wiki”
“Getting home in 1957, of 15 passengers of both sexes, mostly young, on the upper deck of the trolleybus on which I returned, all but one were hatless, and the one exception had a scarf on her head.”
“If my grandmother had wheels, she would be a trolleybus.”
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“Examples include the local #19 trolleybus that runs in the same general direction as the Expo line, or the community shuttles that work between Millennium Line stations.”
“In the case of the trolleybus purchase, it was a much clearer decision.”
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