Collocations for "bus"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "bus" in context.
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bus
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [yellow, red, school, city, tour, public, shuttle, night] bus
- the [number 6] bus
- get [on, off] the bus
- [ride, catch, take] the bus to [work, school]
- [ride] the bus [every day, in the mornings]
- I missed the bus
- he [sprinted, ran] for the bus
- drives the [school] bus
- get stuck behind a bus
- stop the bus
- the bus was [packed, empty, five minutes late]
- buses [run, come, stop] every [15 minutes]
- (don't) throw [them, your allies] under the bus
- a bus [route, schedule, stop, ride, station]
- take a bus tour (of)
- is a bus driver
- bus [people, pensioners, students, workers]
- bussed the [students, children] to [the show, school]
- bussing them around [to, the]
- bussed to [the show, Colorado, the mountains]
- bussed across [town, the country]
- [children, I] bus to [school, work]
- bus in from [the countryside, the neighboring state, Oakland]
- bussed in from [outside, all over, another]
'bus' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
London
- Paris
- airport
- arrival
- arrive
- article
- back
- baggage
- board
- book
- campaign
- capacity
- career
- catch
- charter
- chartered
- city
- coach
- commute
- conductor
- cover
- crash
- crowded
- deck
- delay
- delayed
- depot
- desert
- direct
- dodge
- double
- downtown
- driver
- driving
- each
- east
- eternity
- every
- exhaust
- exit
- express
- flank
- frequency
- frequent
- full
- get
- glove
- halt
- head
- hijack