detrain

Example Sentences

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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

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 Burleigh, Bennet

"We shall be delayed here," he thought, "for the troops to detrain," and he lowered the window and put out his head to watch them do it.

From The Girl from Alsace A Romance of the Great War, Originally Published under the Title of Little Comrade by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

She could board a sleeping car at Granville and detrain within a hundred miles of the ancient trading post—with a fast river boat to carry her the remaining distance.

From North of Fifty-Three by Fischer, Anton Otto