mainline

Example Sentences

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It is the main station for all services on the west coast mainline to England and also operates services throughout central Scotland.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026

With that guidance, officials canceled plans to transfer most of the inmates to mainline prisons.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 11, 2025

Relatives of the inmates’ victims are divided over altering regulations to ensure the convicts go to Florence, rather than to the mainline prisons their disciplinary records called for.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 11, 2025

He used to present as a staid mainline Episcopalian, but now he denounces that church and speaks of being “mauled by demons.”

From Salon • May 19, 2025

Of a student body of 5,700, about 400 participate in one of three evangelical student groups—more than the number of active mainline Protestants, the campus chaplain says.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times