How to Use stagecoach in a Sentence

stagecoach

noun
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  • There was a stagecoach stop and an inn and a post office.
    — Katy Steinmetz / Sacramento, Time, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Over the years, the house has functioned as a post office, inn, stagecoach stop and town hall.
    — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Maybe so, but the runaway stagecoach is about to crash into a canyon of gold.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 21 July 2023
  • An outlaw and his gang attack a stagecoach, leaving its guard to take the blame.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
  • The red dirt road, lined with tall oak trees, served as the main thoroughfare for stagecoaches in the early to mid-1800s.
    — Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The route’s first iteration was as a stagecoach line north of Phoenix.
    — Madeline Nguyen, The Arizona Republic, 13 May 2024
  • An ambush of tigers waited, guns drawn, for the stagecoach to enter the mountain pass.
    — J. C. Duffy, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2023
  • When the inn closed in the 1830s — as the B&O Railroad replaced the stagecoach as a means of travel — the post office moved to nearby Savage.
    — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 26 June 2024
  • Each fall for 13 years, Beth Wright-Smith fired up a nine-story-tall hot-air balloon shaped like a stagecoach and took to the desert skies.
    — Ben Eisen, WSJ, 23 July 2021
  • With the introduction of the railroad in 1855, road use and the demand for a stagecoach declined.
    — Laura Baird, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2017
  • In one maze, a Conestoga wagon and stagecoach have come out of storage to find new life.
    — Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Nashotah The former stagecoach stop, which opened in 1848—the same year Wisconsin became a state—offers a menu big on steaks and seafood.
    — Travel Wisconsin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2017
  • The stagecoach was hogtied by changing tastes in marketing.
    — Ben Eisen, WSJ, 23 July 2021
  • Yes, those are real Wells Fargo wood stagecoach wheels out front.
    — Allen Pierleoni, sacbee.com, 2 June 2017
  • Yes, those are real Wells Fargo wood stagecoach wheels out front.
    — Allen Pierleoni, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Emily and her unwanted suitor board the train by way of stagecoach.
    — Kristin Vartan, EW.com, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Ride an antique car or stagecoach, or head into the Iron Door Mine, rumored to be haunted.
    — Scott Craven, azcentral, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Back then the road was narrow, visitors less common, though the stagecoach stopped at the Gowan orchard for a fresh team of horses.
    — Chelsea Davis, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Yes, those are real Wells Fargo stagecoach wheels out front.
    — Philly.com, 9 July 2017
  • Concord coaches were built just a few miles away and stagecoach travel was key to Wakefield’s growth.
    — David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Free admission is offered on Thursday nights from 6 to 8 p.m. in June and July, with a charge of $3 for stagecoach rides.
    — Kansascity, kansascity.com, 3 May 2017
  • The museum, on Old Grand Avenue, was built in 1844 and has served as a stagecoach stop, post office, town hall and candy store.
    — Erin Yarnall, Chicago Tribune, 12 May 2023
  • Three million onlookers gathered in the streets to cheer as the queen made her way to Westminster Abbey in a 24-foot-long gold stagecoach.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 1 June 2018
  • This historic former stagecoach stop offers a scenic escape from the city and an authentic taste of the Old West.
    — Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 23 Mar. 2022
  • In the midst of the fuss, a stagecoach appears, and out steps Abigail Stanton and her son, Cody who have brought a troubled boy to Lillian’s orphanage.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 28 Sep. 2021
  • The Leesville–Ladoga stagecoach came through each day, headed to the mines or to the several hotels beside the mineral springs that dotted the area.
    — Jerry Brown, The New York Review of Books, 19 Nov. 2020
  • By 1837 the stagecoach added a regular stop in Liverpool.
    — Mike Berardino, Indianapolis Star, 16 July 2019
  • Ten miles south, off the old Cheyenne–Deadwood stagecoach route, is one of the few monuments in the country that is dedicated to a saloon’s madam.
    — Jennifer Percy, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
  • In the late 1800s, the Tallman Hotel was a popular stagecoach stop for travelers.
    — Ginny Prior, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Rewind to the 1700s, though, and the Bowery was thronged with clopping stagecoaches and a string of inns and taverns catering to travelers and mobile tradesmen.
    — Emily S. Rueb, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2016

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