detrain

Example Sentences

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They had hopped on in Denver and would detrain at the end of the line.

From New York Times • Jul. 18, 2022

The Pennsylvania alone will handle more than 300 special trains, will detrain some 50,000 men at Manhattan, has appealed to their mothers and sweethearts not to stand around in the already crowded station.

From Time Magazine Archive

There they were to detrain and search every boat coming down from the north.

From Life in an Indian Outpost by Casserly, Gordon

For all that, black and travel-stained, they were glad to detrain, and to plod through the sand, and breast the laden atmosphere, in order to get into camp hard by the Atbara.

From Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Burleigh, Bennet

They had seen no troops detrain, or pitch camp.

From The Call of the Cumberlands by Buck, Charles Neville