sleeping car
Example Sentences
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While the Richmond, Virginia, resident was in a sleeping car with a private toilet, he said coach passengers are suffering “a wretched, wretched experience” with cars reeking of overflowing toilets.
From Washington Times • Jan. 4, 2022
We both got off the train at Grand Junction because he was moving into a sleeping car for the rest of his journey.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2021
The plucky but foolhardy passengers are gently driven back off the tracks by a jovial sleeping car attendant.
From BBC • Oct. 21, 2015
The United States had definitively entered the space age and we were riding in a Pullman sleeping car.
From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2012
“Then proceed to the sleeping car and enter it through the rear door. We can talk privately there without bringing this entire case to rubble on our heads here in the open.”
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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