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

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 Maher, Richard Aumerle

To our utter disgust, after standing for hours in a siding of the station, chatting to all sorts and conditions of the species soldier, the order came to detrain.

From In the Ranks of the C.I.V. by Childers, Erskine

Colonel Kirby left the train and spoke with the general, and then gave the order for us to detrain at once; and we did so very swiftly, men, and horses, and baggage.

From Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders by Mundy, Talbot