Baby buggies, abroad

Usage examples of prams.

Slowly criss-crossed by parkies and prams under the blank sheet of the sky, the green stretch turned milky and alkaline, like a lake, in the neutral afternoon.

Finding three battered aluminum prams lined up side by side on shore, they shoved two boats adrift, then piled into the third, got the outboard motor going, and made a dash for safety.

The down draft tossed the empty prams as if they were balsa woodchips.

Three prams identical to the one they had lost were drawn up under a sapling and palm leaf structure that would have kept them hidden from anyone on the river or in the air.

Caught in a pocket where the riverbed curved, along with weeds and driftwood, were two overturned aluminum prams whose hulls were dented and ripped open.

Gamay slid the boat in next to two identical prams tied up at the dock and cut the motor.

Jack set to his own mound with an easy mind at last: more or less everybody was talking - Pullings and Parker explaining Bonaparte's intentions to Canning - the new French gunboats, the ship-rigged prams of the invasion flotilla - and Stephen and Macdonald leaning far over their plates to hear one another, or rather to be heard, in an argument that was still mild enough, but that threatened to grow a little warm.

There are also said to be a number of gunboats and prams preparing to move up the coast.

There were already over two thousand of these prams, cannonières and transports, and Chaulieu had built a dozen.

Jack set to his own mound with an easy mind at last: more or less everybody was talking - Pullings and Parker explaining Bonaparte’s intentions to Canning - the new French gunboats, the ship-rigged prams of the invasion flotilla - and Stephen and Macdonald leaning far over their plates to hear one another, or rather to be heard, in an argument that was still mild enough, but that threatened to grow a little warm.

There weren't many of them aboutmen carrying bales of newspapers, women pushing prams, children, the old but asking the way was a sound method of getting to other places.

There weren't many of them about—men carrying bales of newspapers, women pushing prams, children, the old— but asking the way was a sound method of getting to other places.

Dammit, he needed to know how many times the people at this table had wet themselves in their prams, and the Home Office handed him a synopsis measured in thirty-second sound bites.

I want to know who pushed them in their prams and what they ate for dinner on their fifth birthdays.