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detrain

[dee-treyn] / diˈtreɪn /






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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

My orders were to take up a line, which was at present covered by the 51st Division, between Robecq and Calonne and for that object to detrain and move forward immediately.

From The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry by Geoffrey Keith Rose

The Commander-in-Chief may be forced to ask Marshal French to co-operate with British Divisions as they detrain and without waiting for the whole of the detrainment to be carried out.

From 1914 by John Denton Pinkstone French, Earl of Ypres

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 Bennet Burleigh

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

Then, muffled in a fur-lined khaki greatcoat and red cap, he detrained, saluted, shook hands with beaming Commissar Molotov.

From Time Magazine Archive

Snatcher Robinson's wife started for Indianapolis with the money, detrained at Terre Haute, unconsciously avoided a taxi proffered by a D. O. I. man in disguise, motored to Indianapolis.

From Time Magazine Archive

On neither side has it been possible to get heavy artillery in position in time, but on the allied side French and British guns, freshly detrained, gave support of moral as well as material importance.

From Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 by Various

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

On detraining it marched to billets at Eringhem for two nights.

From The Story of the 6th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry France, April 1915-November 1918 by Sir Ralph Bignell Ainsworth

A great crowd of people watched the men detraining, and several hearty rounds of cheering greeted their appearance.

From The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland by Cecil Francis Romer




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