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

It would take three days for all troops to detrain, so I sought the earliest opportunity of finding Miss Goche.

From The Sequel What the Great War will mean to Australia by Taylor, George A. (George Augustine)

The prisoners of war went on to Cologne to be put in a laager, but we were bidden to detrain at Aix-la-Chapelle.

From Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)