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

They had seen no troops detrain, or pitch camp.

From The Call of the Cumberlands by Buck, Charles Neville

Hippy Wingate stepped from the train that had just pulled into the little Red River Valley station and turned to observe Tom Gray and the others of the Overland Riders detrain.

From Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods by Flower, Jessie Graham [pseud.]

Among the passengers to detrain was a man in a long black coat.

From The Drums of Jeopardy by MacGrath, Harold