detrain
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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
Things being as they were at that point, the Commissioner had Jenning's command detrain there.
From Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police by R. G. (Roderick George) MacBeth
They slumbered on as best they could in their box-car berths, while the special was pulled in on a siding, to remain until daylight when the order to detrain was to be issued.
From The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces by William Elmer Bachman
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 Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
I wonder what my ancestor from Scotland thought when he detrained at Los Angeles in the 1880s to take ownership of a farm in the San Fernando Valley nearby.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2017
Mr. Del Gatto maneuvered the Jeep into an elevator; the Waldorf has one big enough, just as it has an all-but-secret railroad platform where President Franklin Delano Roosevelt detrained in 1944.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2015
At Peiping's Chienmen Railroad Station 600 stumpy little Japanese soldiers detrained from Tientsin, marched through the streets with full equipment to strengthen the guard.
From Time Magazine Archive
Next morning Mr. Farley detrained at Kansas City, got a shave, went to 9 o'clock mass, attended a breakfast of 70 potent Democrats.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Leinsters, who left Dunmow by train half an hour later, had detrained at this point at one o'clock, and just about three had met the patrols of the Rifles.
From The Invasion by William Le Queux
In fact, a recent study involving men in their 50s to 70s investigated the effects of completing a resistance training regimen, followed by a detraining period, then a retraining period, each consisting of 12 weeks.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2022
Why did the dead man obsess over a newsreel image of Mrs Bathurst detraining at Paddington?
From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2012
The destroyer Warrington was chosen by the Navy to convey Their Majesties from Sandy Hook to the Battery after detraining at Red Bank on their way from Washington to the New York World's Fair.
From Time Magazine Archive
A return was then made to the former front line, and detraining again at Brandhoek, the Battalion went this time to another hut camp known as Toronto.
From The Story of the 6th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry France, April 1915-November 1918 by Sir Ralph Bignell Ainsworth
Ignoring the sensation caused by the detraining of four persons simultaneously, Percival led his party along a muddy rough lane.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. CLVIII, January 7, 1920 by Various
