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

It stirred the blood of everybody in our dull camp to see detachment after detachment of the second British brigade detrain.

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

In order not to delay his arrival at Metz, nor the progress of the trains following, Major Morin at the head of the column, directed his commands to detrain and continue to Metz.

From Battle Studies by Ardant du Picq, Charles Jean Jacques Joseph