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 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)

They detrain Dervish troops at this point," said he, "and march them to the shore to be shipped to Gallipoli, because they riot and make trouble if kept in barracks in Skutari or Stamboul.

From Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders by Mundy, Talbot

We were not allowed to detrain at Abbeville till 9.30 P.M., as the platforms were already occupied by other troops.

From The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915 by Gleichen, Edward, Lord