49 examples of runabout in sentences

A runabout would be handy for themone like Doctor Guerin's.

"An electric runabout or a good two-seat carriage will fill our bill.

"Do you think you're a racing runabout and I'm a curve?" Brown waved him away impatiently.

" He halted; in the driveway, blocking it, stood a red motor cara little runabout affair; and at the steering-wheel sat a womana lady's maid by her cap and narrow apron, and an exceedingly pretty one, at that.

She was on her way to serve in the tea pavilion at Mrs. Magnelius Grandcourt's bazaar, and her runabout broke down and nearly blew up.

I've got an errand at the garage anyhow, as my dad wants a mechanic sent up to potter at his little runabout, out of commission as usual.

He saw a mechanic start off to tackle the disabled runabout for the doctor, so he could carry out his round of morning visits by ten o'clock.

Even a staid college professor, who has walked the walled-in path all his life: let him get a Ford runabout, and in three months he is exultant in running as close as possible to every foot traveler and in exceeding the speed limit at any favorable chance.

The automobile, a small runabout, drew up at the entrance to the court.

Before Jake could pick himself up from the floor of the front part of the car there came a loud shriek from the runabout.

They saw the large car strike the runabout and crumple its engine hood.

Soon after, Roy, Jimsy and Jake dragged the small runabout out of the ditch.

The runabout had been rescued, and the whole party introduced and talking merrily when Jess set up a cry.

In four minutes the runabout was within a hundred yards, open exhausts cracking like a machine gun.

Mary was sent off in "the shore boat" (otherwise the light runabout which carried them on duty or pleasure to and from the ten-mile-distant town) with orders to draw the day's rations, collect the day's mail, buy the day's papers, and return to the village, being back not later than five o'clock.

All steam-propelled automobiles, from the light steam runabout to the clumsy steam roller, are worked practically as described.

We left my home at 7:30 o'clock a. m., some of us in my machine, and two of the party in a runabout.

After lunch two of the party in the runabout drove out of the valley to some place familiar to them.

As a result of its speedy run the day before, the runabout had for some little time been running on a rim.

Of course, the seven-year-old Vanderveer boy on the Bluffs had an electric runabout for a Christmas gift, also a man to run it!

At the same time the driver's seat in the buggy or runabout was raised from beneath so as to tilt the occupant forward into an almost standing posture.

A moment later, the team coming up proved to be a freshly painted runabout, drawn by a fine bay horse in trim harness, driven by the average stable boy; while beside him sat a smooth-faced, keen-eyed man, rather under middle age, dressed in a spotless light suit, tan shoes, lilac shirt, opalesque tie, finished above by a Panama hat pinched into many dimples.

He sat up till two o'clock at the Dutchman's, and naturally, the next morning he had a breath like a gasoline runabout, and looked as if he'd been attending a successful coon-hunt in the capacity of the coon.

" "I should think you'd own a runabout," remarked Max.

"You have a hundred and twenty horsepower brain and a runabout body," said the great physician.

49 examples of  runabout  in sentences