Stolen-car trip

Usage examples of joyride.

Lotus, spray paint cars, toss eggs, take off with a three-year-old and joyride at breakneck speeds, and you never get punished.

An occasional drunk-and-disorderly, maybe some kids going on a joyride, now and then a domestic dispute.

These include delivering and picking up traded items, tooting off on joyrides, carrying diplomatic missions like ours, and dropping kids on Trial.

Then there was Gloria Mundy, the good-time girl, who had to be stoked with costly food, theatre tickets, and joyrides of all kinds.

Lessons, air shows, joyrides, an occasional left-hand seat assignment for a delivery service or small charter company.

Not the way she looked only a few days ago, fifteen years old, the Saturday morning her friend Kate took her joyriding even though neither of them had a license and Kate spun the car sideways into a tree and a branch came through the open passenger window like the finger of God and poked twenty inches of bark and leaves right through Lizzy's head and Kate sat there completely unharmed except for Lizzy's blood and brains dripping from the leaves onto her shoulder.

They read crime reports, got hipped to some joyriding spooks firing shotguns--lay the onus on them-- they figured the arresting officers would kill them, case closed.

Sammy had never admitted to Clarence that Tony had been joyriding in the getaway car the night before the Brink's robbery and had run through a street littered with glass.

Sammy shivered at the tone, remembering how Tony had gone joyriding in the getaway car.

He hoped they were just joyriding or patrolling, since there was no place for helicopters that big to set down on his ship.

So worried you took a joyride in a laundry cart, his glare said plainly.

Jessop had bought a Piper three weeks ago and took one of his girl-friends for a joyride and wrapped the thing round a power pylon and got away with it, except that she was suing him for five hundred thousand pounds for a new face before she could model again.