Explore Minivan through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like car or auto. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Minivan meaning
A small van, especially (Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines) one primarily used for family transport.
Synonyms of Minivan
Using Minivan
- The main meaning on this page is: A small van, especially (Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines) one primarily used for family transport.
- Useful related words include: passenger van, car, auto, automobile.
- In the example corpus, minivan often appears in combinations such as: the minivan, minivan and, minivan was.
Context around Minivan
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 12 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 3 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Minivan
- In this selection, "minivan" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, family, aging, white, spun, window and getting stand out and add context to how "minivan" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a black minivan likely carrying and a customized minivan than a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "minivan" sits close to words such as abolishing, acidity and akbar, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with minivan
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Who might gravitate to a cool old minivan like this? (10 words)
Walker’s minivan struck him and threw him around 20 yards. (11 words)
Her biggest worry is her aging minivan, with its 167,000 miles. (12 words)
Yep, whether you’re a family farmer with an old F-150, a suburban mom with a used minivan, or a poor college kid getting to and from campus in a beat-up Accord, all you need is one of Pothole Pete’s coal-charged, battery-powered, overpriced beauties. (49 words)
A unique character on the pro-voucher team, Opportunity Arkansas’s Horton wrote an op-ed for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in November 2022 about a childhood visit to Little Rock, during which his mom’s minivan window got broken. (40 words)
The cops have been alerted… If she is accompanying him, there is a significant probability that they will be travelling in a minivan that is either white or maroon and has jersey tags on it. (35 words)
That’s a far cry from minivan DVD players, isn’t it? (12 words)
What do you say, is this row-yer-own minivan worth that kind of cash in its present state? (19 words)
Who might gravitate to a cool old minivan like this? (10 words)
Example sentences (20)
Traffic is projected onto the touchscreen with clear lane markings, so a truck looks like a truck, a minivan like a minivan.
A 30-year-old man from Golden Valley, North Dakota, was traveling westbound and collided with Thacker’s minivan, and the minivan spun around with the passenger side facing westbound traffic.
A unique character on the pro-voucher team, Opportunity Arkansas’s Horton wrote an op-ed for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in November 2022 about a childhood visit to Little Rock, during which his mom’s minivan window got broken.
Footage taken from a LabPadre camera shows a minivan getting owned by debris spewing out from the launch site.
Hanging out in the shade with growing calves is more relaxing than transporting them in the family minivan.
Her biggest worry is her aging minivan, with its 167,000 miles.
Officials have not released the identities of the US citizens but said that their white minivan had North Carolina licence plates.
She asks for her minivan back, which only causes the man there to patronize her.
South Korean TV footage on Tuesday afternoon showed a black minivan likely carrying J-Hope moving into the boot camp in Wonju, about 55 miles east of Seoul.
That’s a far cry from minivan DVD players, isn’t it?
The cops have been alerted… If she is accompanying him, there is a significant probability that they will be travelling in a minivan that is either white or maroon and has jersey tags on it.
The five occupants of the minivan were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The vehicle — which is more akin to a customized minivan than a Nuro-style self-driving cart — launched in beta at the end of 2020.
They were in the two front seats of our minivan, and I was in the backseat reading books, and preparing interviews, and popping out every now and then to get some b-roll.
This high-ranking minivan was once again praised for its collision-avoidance measures and, you know, because minivans are the superior mode of transport.
Unfortunately, the minivan’s battery had died, rendering conventional methods of unlocking ineffective.
Walker’s minivan struck him and threw him around 20 yards.
What do you say, is this row-yer-own minivan worth that kind of cash in its present state?
Who might gravitate to a cool old minivan like this?
Yep, whether you’re a family farmer with an old F-150, a suburban mom with a used minivan, or a poor college kid getting to and from campus in a beat-up Accord, all you need is one of Pothole Pete’s coal-charged, battery-powered, overpriced beauties.
Common combinations with minivan
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the minivan 26×
- minivan and 13×
- minivan was 9×
- minivan that 8×
- minivan with 5×
- and minivan 5×
- minivan had 4×
- of minivan 4×
- their minivan 4×
- minivan in 4×