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
For all that, black and travel-stained, they were glad to detrain, and to plod through the sand, and breast the laden atmosphere, in order to get into camp hard by the Atbara.
From Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Burleigh, Bennet
Among the passengers to detrain was a man in a long black coat.
From The Drums of Jeopardy by MacGrath, Harold
The Commander-in-Chief may be forced to ask Marshal French to co-operate with British Divisions as they detrain and without waiting for the whole of the detrainment to be carried out.
From 1914 by French, John Denton Pinkstone, Earl of Ypres
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
