VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

To Carpool

Meaning:

To travel to the same place with a group of people in one car. e.g. work/school

Examples:

  • Trying cooking at home instead of eating out, carpool to work, or share your living expenses with a roommate.
  • Ten percent of residents carpool, and five percent use public transportation.
  • Take mass transportation, carpool, or walk whenever possible to reduce carbon emissions.
  • Frieman contends that if corporations are indeed persons, that carrying corporate papers in his car allows him to drive in the carpool lane.
  • Walk, bike, use transit or car pool wherever possible.
  • Carpool, ride a bike, or use public transportation to save fuel and reduce carbon emissions.
  • Transport innovations dating from this period include high-occupancy vehicle lanes, citywide carpool systems and transportation demand management.
  • Several people at our factory car pool to save money.
  • Still other women finish their makeup on a crowded subway or carpool.
  • Eight percent of residents carpool, four percent walk to work and seven percent use public transportation.
  • Walk, take public transportation, or carpool to work.
  • Patrick crashed a Ford that he'd borrowed from the car pool at work.
  • The majority of carpool commutes (over 60%) are fam-pools with family members.
  • Lily promised to pick up John in the morning for their carpool.
  • His wife stays home to drive the children to school in the car pool.
  • Commuter parking is defined as parking at or near the workplace or at a location from which an employee commutes to work by transit, vanpool or carpool.
  • Thank goodness, they're finally putting in carpool lanes on the local highway.