buggy

as in pram
a small four-wheeled vehicle designed for pushing a baby around in we'll need a new buggy if we have another baby

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Recent Examples of buggy An armed man allegedly robbed two Amish buggies in western Pennsylvania, according to police. Megan Forrester, ABC News, 31 Mar. 2025 Another fatality was reported in Millersburg, Indiana, when a thunderstorm overturned an Amish buggy at a highway intersection. Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2025 Another person was killed in Indiana Sunday evening when strong winds from a thunderstorm blew over an Amish buggy, the National Weather Service in Northern Indiana reported, citing information relayed by the Elkhart County Emergency Management officials. John Bacon, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2025 Another person died after strong winds knocked over an Amish buggy carrying a family of four in Middlebury, Indiana – about 70 miles east of Valparaiso – Sunday, an Elkhart County dispatcher told CNN. Matthew Rehbein, CNN Money, 31 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for buggy
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Noun
  • No trace of the 10-foot pram used by Ralph has ever been found.
    Robert E. Houle, Outdoor Life, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Our four-month-old slept in his pram by the pool while our oldest drank mocktails, took Thai boxing lessons and collected shells from the beach.
    MaryLou Costa, contributor, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Police also discovered that the children slept in cribs and defaced monsters and dolls were also found in their rooms, per El Mundo.
    Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 1 May 2025
  • Travel cribs are available upon request and larger rooms offer pull-out sofas.
    Ashlea Halpern, AFAR Media, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Americans rely on China for thousands of products, everything from flat screen TVs to baby strollers.
    Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN Money, 1 May 2025
  • No stress about breaking down strollers and getting kids through security.
    Mohammed Soliman, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Correspondent Serna Altschul looks at the history of strollers, prams and pushchairs, and at the designs and aesthetics of today's super-smooth strollers.
    David Morgan, CBS News, 18 May 2024
  • Riley’s custom pushchair, designed by Adaptive Star,has no gears but does have a safety brake to slow downhill runs.
    Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2023
Noun
  • Universal drink caddies that attach to the handles of suitcases and baby buggies.
    Theresa Holland, Travel + Leisure, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Some of the parade highlights will include 14 pipe and drum marching bands, students from Irish dance schools performing, an appearance by Consulate General of Ireland Council Kevin Byrne and the original baby buggy parade float from the first parade in 1979.
    Jeff Vorva, chicagotribune.com, 11 Mar. 2022
Noun
  • As a young father pushed a baby carriage on a windy morning in Broward last week, streams of leaves and flowers cascaded down from a nearby towering oak tree.
    Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Filmmakers from Denis Villeneuve to Brian De Palma have paid homage to the film's famous scene of a baby carriage careening down the staircase.
    Michael Robinson Chávez, NPR, 6 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In a 1923 address to the British Royal Society of the Arts, one Samuel Sewell chided his fellow-researchers for having failed to research the history of a device as common and useful as the ubiquitous perambulator, or pram.
    Peter C. Baker, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2022
  • One perambulator holding big packages and a sleeping red-haired baby clutching the strings of two round, red balloons.
    Robert Richardson, Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2022
Noun
  • Yet even in this cradle of endemic life, one region stands apart, both for its diversity and its age.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Scientists additionally found at least three planes aboard the ship, including a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber with a bomb still secured in the release cradle.
    Erin Clack, People.com, 26 Apr. 2025

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