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

They had seen no troops detrain, or pitch camp.

From The Call of the Cumberlands by Buck, Charles Neville

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 Parrott, James Edward

There they were to detrain and search every boat coming down from the north.

From Life in an Indian Outpost by Casserly, Gordon