freight train
Example Sentences
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A line outside a Riverside gas station crossed a railroad track, and a man stopped on the tracks refused to yield his place even when a freight train engine bore down on him.
From Los Angeles Times
We’d get there for free, as long as the freight trains ran.
From Literature
Adrenaline hit my system like a freight train, and I felt my heart rate double in an instant.
From Literature
It felt like a freight train coming at you.
From Barron's
Half the cars on a freight train had been knocked off the tracks and lay with their bellies in the air, like helpless turtles.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
