locomotive

Example Sentences

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He insists the railways will continue to find creative ways to counter the threat: conducting faster repairs, dispersing locomotives in various locations and dispatching replacement buses when segments of the network are down.

From The Wall Street Journal

Earnings are expected to be the chief locomotive for stock performance in 2026 with 8 out of 11 sectors forecast to grow faster next year than this, according to consensus.

From MarketWatch

Farther off, whales blew jets of water from their blowholes like smoke from the smokestack of a Bloomer steam locomotive.

From Literature

The Incorrigible children hugged the fortune-teller and danced in and out of her countless billowing scarves as they caught the puffs of steam from the awakening locomotive like so many wind-filled sails.

From Literature

But it was the steam locomotive itself that had overheated the little girl’s imagination.

From Literature