mainline

Example Sentences

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Last year, he moved to North Carolina for a job with Christian Brothers Automotive, making $23 an hour and working more than 50 hours a week as a mainline technician, primarily servicing BMWs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

It could have come to life as a lesser kind of Ferrari, a diminished derivative of one of the company’s mainline GT cars, with a turbocharged V8 under the hood.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

There had been nothing going out on the West Coast mainline and hardly any announcements, she said.

From BBC • Nov. 21, 2025

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

But over the last forty years, evangelicals have pulled steadily closer in income and education to mainline Protestants in the historically affluent establishment denominations.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times