pram

chiefly British
as in buggy
a small four-wheeled vehicle designed for pushing a baby around in like other trendy Notting Hill couples, they bought a fancy pram for the first baby

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Recent Examples of pram 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 Showing their commitment to all things Halloween, the couple even had a pram filled with baby ogres in tow. Vogue, 18 Oct. 2024 There’s been a turning of the tables since the website conducted the study in 2021, when baby strollers stood at 67% and puppy prams at 33%,per the Korea Times. Chloe Berger, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for pram
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Noun
  • Lonnie Yoder, 84, was killed when his Amish buggy flipped due to intense winds in Middlebury, Ind. shortly before 6 p.m. local time on Sunday.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 1 Apr. 2025
  • An armed man allegedly robbed two Amish buggies in western Pennsylvania, according to police.
    Megan Forrester, ABC News, 31 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • For families traveling with infants, the resort also provides cribs, child-friendly toiletries, bottle warmers, bathrobes, and coloring books.
    Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Half a century ago, a young couple renting a cabin disappeared forever, leaving behind a baby girl in her crib.
    Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 1 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
  • There are also a number of kid-friendly items the washing machine can handle: plush toys, car seat covers, and stroller fabric.
    Stacey Lastoe, Southern Living, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Our world-class subway system, which transports millions so efficiently, is nearly impossible to navigate with a stroller.
    Grace Rauh, New York Daily News, 16 Apr. 2025
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
  • 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
  • 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

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“Pram.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pram. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.

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