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

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

"No doubt we shall go on as soon as the troops detrain."

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

One unit took four and a half hours to detrain and several have taken more than three.

From Servants of the Guns by Jeffery, Jeffery E.