How to Use carmaker in a Sentence

carmaker

noun
  • So why is the head of one of the world's second-largest carmaker leaving?
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 22 July 2022
  • Most carmakers are ending the year with lots of cash and lots of worries.
    — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Tesla is the only carmaker tested by the IIHS that breaks from the pack.
    — William Gavin, Quartz, 12 Mar. 2024
  • To date, the only carmakers to have confirmed an in-game buy are Ram Trucks and Jeep.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 27 Jan. 2025
  • That sent shares to record highs, pushing the carmaker’s market cap close to the $100 billion mark.
    — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2024
  • At the time, Golfs were a top seller, helping to make Volkswagen the fourth-largest carmaker in the world.
    — Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Shares of the carmaker jumped 4.7% in Frankfurt on Tuesday.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 31 Mar. 2021
  • The results mark the ninth straight quarter of profit for the 18-year-old electric carmaker.
    — Fortune, 20 Oct. 2021
  • And Tesla, the electric carmaker that’s the main source of Musk’s wealth, was about to announce record profits.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 11 July 2022
  • Japan’s No 1 carmaker has been in scandals before and come out clean on the other side.
    — Peter Lyon, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The electric carmaker led by Elon Musk doesn’t break down its sales by region.
    — Laura He, CNN, 5 July 2023
  • Europe's largest carmaker was nobody's idea of a trendy stock a week ago.
    — Charles Riley, CNN, 21 Mar. 2021
  • But this time the Japanese carmaker has improved on the formula, and the ride.
    — cleveland, 22 July 2023
  • Lila Hong, 33, who works in marketing for a carmaker, was in Wuhan at the start of the pandemic there three years ago.
    — Fox News, 18 Jan. 2023
  • The walkout is the first in the UAW's nearly nine decades of existence that targets all three carmakers at once.
    — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The carmaker, known for the dieselgate emissions scandal, plans to change its name to Voltswagen in the United States.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2021
  • The company has the largest market cap of any carmaker.
    — Valla Vakili, Quartz at Work, 15 Dec. 2020
  • The dip comes amid a 1.7% drop in the Nasdaq Thursday; shares of electric carmaker Lucid Group fell 18%.
    — Eliza Haverstock, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The electric carmaker’s earnings are forecast to jump 142% from a year ago.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 20 Apr. 2022
  • The Big Three are the only carmakers that employ unionized workers in the United States.
    — J.j. McCorvey, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The carmaker’s shares plunged 16% in the following two trading days.
    — Bob Van Voris, Bloomberg.com, 17 Feb. 2022
  • The carmaker quickly designed the Ford Gyron, a big sedan with only one tire in the front and one in the back, the whole thing held erect by gyroscopes!
    — Washington Post, 20 May 2021
  • Tesla's China sales were strong at the start of this year, ranking the carmaker first among pure-electric brands.
    — Laura He, CNN, 8 June 2022
  • No carmaker is investing so much in the jump to electric.
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
  • The real world, as carmakers are relearning, is a messy place.
    — Will Johnson, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Every carmaker selling in the U.S. will offer at least one EV within the next few years.
    — John Voelcker, Car and Driver, 14 Oct. 2021
  • This specialty carmaker used to cater mostly to white men ages 55 to 80.
    — Phoebe Wall Howard Detroit Free Press, Star Tribune, 4 Dec. 2020
  • The company’s chief executive, Elon Musk, may have to sell a big chunk of his stock in the carmaker to fund his takeover of Twitter.
    — New York Times, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Tesla, the electric carmaker led by Trump-adviser Elon Musk, bucked the trend.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 27 Mar. 2025
  • In addition, the EV sector is maturing as other carmakers roll out their own makes and models.
    — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2025

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