rockaway

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Recent Examples of rockaway The show culminated with Jon shouting out a string of moves — the A-Town stomp, the muscle, the thunder clap, the rockaway — as more dancers flooded the stage. Jason Lamphier, EW.com, 12 Feb. 2024 Beres Hammond: The reggae star comes to rockaway as part of his Never Ending Tour. Trevor Fraser, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Aug. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rockaway
Noun
  • When Tran rang it, Daisy and Kelsey pulled up in a surrey.
    Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2024
  • The clanging warning that a family in a four-wheel surrey pedicab is rolling up behind you.
    Tim Ebner, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
Noun
  • Acceptable modes of transit include a 1969 Mini Cooper, any model of Range Rover that Prince Philip once drove, or a hackney carriage.
    Simon Webster, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Feinberg is still driving under the same hackney carriage medallion that he was issued in 1975, according to police.
    Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2018
Noun
  • Taxi brought together a true cast of New York City characters, sharing their lives in between customers at a cab company unlike any other.
    Angela Andaloro, People.com, 2 July 2025
  • The detective approached the cab driven by Mendenhall and saw blood on his thumb.
    Sarah Nelson, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • The royal couple was transported to the senate in the grandest of royal ways: in a landau carriage escorted by a troupe from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Musical Ride in their bright red tunics.
    Simon Perry, People.com, 27 May 2025
  • It's also understood that King Charles, 75, will attend Trooping the Colour amid his own cancer treatment, and conduct the review while seated in an Ascot landau carriage alongside Queen Camilla.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 30 May 2024
Noun
  • Capella is supposed to mark the position where the mama goat is sitting on the chariot driver’s shoulder, and that’s why it’s known as the goat star.
    Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 8 June 2025
  • Louella dies before the games begin when the District 12 chariot crashes during the tribute parade.
    Ashley Wolfgang, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Amazon is slashing prices on classic hammocks and Adirondack chairs, in addition to long chaises for sunbathing and rocking chairs.
    Blake Bakkila, Architectural Digest, 9 July 2025
  • Thankfully, most of the beaches here are not a place for cabanas or a chaise, but a blanket and cooler filled with local Imperial beers.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • There is a wheelchair-accessible buggy service available throughout the resort, as well as chair lifts for certain pools.
    Hazel Plush, Travel + Leisure, 7 July 2025
  • More buggies ended up on their sides or backs, the result of collisions or bad landings in the whoops section.
    William Liang, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2025
Noun
  • In Franco Zeffirelli’s lavish production, the moment is an awe-inspiring spectacle, evoking the Latin Quarter in Paris and bustling with some 250 people onstage — and a donkey and a horse, who pulls a hansom cab onstage for a dramatic entrance.
    New York Times, New York Times, 17 May 2022
  • The three musicians have grown from talented tweens to svelte, beyond-hansom thirty somethings.
    Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 17 Sep. 2017

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“Rockaway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rockaway. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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