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detrain

[dee-trayn] / 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

Next day the Third Corps was to arrive and detrain at St. Omer.

From The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 2 (of 10) From the Battle of Mons to the Fall of Antwerp. by James Edward Parrott

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 Bennet Burleigh

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

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

The Postmaster General's itinerary began fortnight ago when he detrained one mid-afternoon at Indianapolis.

From Time Magazine Archive

Someone else discovered that when Bogdan Filoff detrained in Vienna at 6:17 the next evening, he was greeted by the Bulgarian Minister to Germany.

From Time Magazine Archive

At ten o'clock we were detrained on the line near to a large sheet of water, probably at Otschauka.

From In the Russian Ranks A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland by John Morse

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 at Longeau, the Battalion marched to billets in Corbie, where it stayed for one night.

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

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


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