detrain
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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
All the afternoon as he watched he saw other and yet other groups and troops of men come up the railroad, detrain and push out ever farther upon the enveloping wings to east and west.
From The Shepherd of the North by Richard Aumerle Maher
"The troops will detrain somewhere this side the frontier, and we can all take our old seats."
From The Girl from Alsace A Romance of the Great War, Originally Published under the Title of Little Comrade by Burton Egbert Stevenson
"We shall be delayed here," he thought, "for the troops to detrain," and he lowered the window and put out his head to watch them do it.
From The Girl from Alsace A Romance of the Great War, Originally Published under the Title of Little Comrade by Burton Egbert Stevenson
I wonder what my ancestor from Scotland thought when he detrained at Los Angeles in the 1880s to take ownership of a farm in the San Fernando Valley nearby.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2017
Mr. Del Gatto maneuvered the Jeep into an elevator; the Waldorf has one big enough, just as it has an all-but-secret railroad platform where President Franklin Delano Roosevelt detrained in 1944.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2015
When it stopped at Casper, Wyo., he finally detrained, and the President, going out to the back platform, made an effective little talk.
From Time Magazine Archive
The chemists detrained at Durham, where arrangements had been made to convey them by bus the twelve miles to Chapel Hill.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were exasperatingly docile, made few complaints, got up, entrained, detrained, fed, excursioned, slept, just as they were bidden.
From The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol by Alec Ball
In fact, a recent study involving men in their 50s to 70s investigated the effects of completing a resistance training regimen, followed by a detraining period, then a retraining period, each consisting of 12 weeks.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2022
Why did the dead man obsess over a newsreel image of Mrs Bathurst detraining at Paddington?
From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2012
The destroyer Warrington was chosen by the Navy to convey Their Majesties from Sandy Hook to the Battery after detraining at Red Bank on their way from Washington to the New York World's Fair.
From Time Magazine Archive
St. Omer-Hazebrouck, as detraining spot, 188; advance from, to the Lys, rendered possible by enemy miscalculation, 267.
From 1914 by John Denton Pinkstone French, Earl of Ypres
While it was detraining, Sir John had some very hard thinking to do.
From The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) From the First Battle of Ypres to the End of the Year 1914 by James Edward Parrott
