riding the rails
Example Sentences
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Looking at the current crop, Brookes grew up riding the rails at the indoor ski centre in Manchester, while Muir learned her craft in Aberdeen.
From BBC • Feb. 15, 2026
But a serious challenge to the success of billions in investments is ensuring that customers feel they are safe riding the rails.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 3, 2024
“He talked a lot about riding the rails through the West. And a lot of songs that he wrote happened during some of his trips across America.”
From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2022
In the worst years of the Great Depression, nearly a quarter of the country was unemployed, suicides skyrocketed, and people started hopping on freight trains — "riding the rails" — in search of work.
From Salon • Feb. 14, 2021
No one recalls when the gift-giving started, probably in the 1980s, when Central Americans, fleeing war and poverty, began riding the rails north in large numbers.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
