How to Use scooter in a Sentence

scooter

noun
  • Two of the team jump on a scooter and drive off to the crash site.
    WIRED, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Soon, the man on the scooter and the man behind the wheel were shouting.
    USA Today, 26 June 2023
  • Her youngest son, Zachary, was next to her on his scooter.
    Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2024
  • With a top speed of 15 mph, the scooter requires a helmet.
    Morgan Korn, ABC News, 25 Nov. 2023
  • Paparazzi on scooters and bikes zoomed down the sidewalk to keep up, the source said.
    Max Foster, CNN, 17 May 2023
  • That won’t happen on this scooter because of the beeps.
    Scott Kramer, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The best part is that the KQi3 Pro version tops out at 20 miles per hour which, for a scooter, is crazy fast.
    Christian Gollayan, Men's Health, 12 Nov. 2022
  • There are many more of us on the road — bikes, pedestrians, scooters.
    Judy Berlfein, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Nov. 2023
  • For the kid-at-heart tech-lover in your life, few toys are as much fun as an electric scooter.
    Christian Gollayan, Men's Health, 12 Nov. 2022
  • Plater was thrown from his scooter and died at the scene, according to the police.
    Martin Weil, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2022
  • The camera zooms in to get a better view of the scooter, which sits by its lonesome in the parking spot.
    Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 30 Mar. 2024
  • The girl was in a crosswalk on a scooter and with a woman and two other children at the time.
    John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2023
  • Moore II suffered the ankle injury in a loss to the Steelers and was on a scooter the next week.
    Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Her fiancé, Kevin Campbell, got on a scooter to check the condition of the fire.
    Tom Llamas, NBC News, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Some scooters have weight limits: Treat them as gospel.
    Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics, 6 May 2023
  • The man on the scooter suffered a broken leg and was taken to the hospital for treatment.
    Karen Kucher dec. 27, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Dec. 2022
  • The second option was to max out the assist and treat it as a scooter, with the pedals being used to keep the motor on.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 15 Dec. 2023
  • All of the rickshaw configurations have a top speed of 28 mph, while the scooter can reach up to 37 mph.
    Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 17 Feb. 2024
  • The man on the scooter then started taking pictures of me and my vehicle.
    Lizzy Acker, oregonlive, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Left behind at the scene were Hughes’s backpack and small green scooter.
    Curbed, 27 Oct. 2023
  • With other friends from the neighborhood, Anne and I rode scooters, played hopscotch and pushed hoops with a stick.
    Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2023
  • Video from the scene showed a man approach the victim from behind on a scooter, raise his hand and fire one time, Kenny said.
    Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 8 July 2023
  • The shooters escaped on their scooter along 193rd Street, Chell said, which was captured on video.
    Michael Lee Simpson, Peoplemag, 12 July 2023
  • There are plans to let those licensees do delivery by bike and scooter.
    Tiffany Kary, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Fadi’s wife asked to get a toy for the child, and a commander led Fadi to a bedroom filled with plastic trucks and scooters.
    Sufian Taha, Washington Post, 9 July 2023
  • Despite its lower price, the A3 scooter has the same craftsmanship that brought Razor to the top of the scooter market more than 20 years ago.
    Cheryl Fenton, Parents, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Lavoie, a subsidiary of McLaren Applied, has just unveiled a new electric scooter called the Series 1.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The suspension and range are lacking, but this is a nimble little scooter for buzzing around town.
    Louryn Strampe gear Team, WIRED, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Francona uses the scooter to go to and from Progressive Field on game days during the season.
    Jim Ingraham, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The camp—peopled with a girl on a scooter, a woman in a coral suit and sage-green hat, and a group of men in cool grays—is obscured by heavy, navy-black clouds jutting across the frame.
    Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023

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