mainline

Example Sentences

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The 04:28 Avanti West Coast service came off the tracks on the West Coast mainline at Shap in Cumbria on Monday morning after travelling at speeds of 80mph.

From BBC • Nov. 4, 2025

Alaska faced a similar outage just three months ago when a critical piece of hardware at a data center failed, bringing down its systems and forcing it to cancel about 10% of its mainline schedule.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

With that guidance, officials canceled plans to transfer most of the inmates to mainline prisons.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 11, 2025

He used to present as a staid mainline Episcopalian, but now he denounces that church and speaks of being “mauled by demons.”

From Salon • May 19, 2025

Of a student body of 5,700, about 400 participate in one of three evangelical student groups—more than the number of active mainline Protestants, the campus chaplain says.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times