mainline

Example Sentences

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The train operator LNER, which runs the east coast mainline, has extended its advice to passengers not to travel between Edinburgh and Aberdeen as they "cannot guarantee" trains will operate until Friday at the earliest.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2026

The tax burden would be disproportionately felt by progressive mainline Protestant churches, Black evangelical churches and immigrant-majority Catholic and Protestant congregations, not to mention immigrant-majority mosques and temples.

From Salon • Nov. 16, 2025

Relatives of the inmates’ victims are divided over altering regulations to ensure the convicts go to Florence, rather than to the mainline prisons their disciplinary records called for.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 11, 2025

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 11, 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