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
"No doubt we shall go on as soon as the troops detrain."
From The Girl from Alsace A Romance of the Great War, Originally Published under the Title of Little Comrade by Burton Egbert Stevenson
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
We were not allowed to detrain at Abbeville till 9.30 P.M., as the platforms were already occupied by other troops.
From The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915 by Lord Edward Gleichen
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
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
Next day the militia detrained at Tipton, marched through crowds of hostile farmers to the Cedar County fair grounds, where it encamped.
From Time Magazine Archive
We had detrained at Amesbury, bleary eyed and sleepless after a tedious night trip from Plymouth.
From From the St. Lawrence to the Yser with the 1st Canadian brigade by Frederic C. Curry
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
There was little hilarity among the detraining football followers, and crimson colors gave way to the somber black of umbrellas.
From Interference and Other Football Stories by Harold Morrow Sherman
Vith line has been relaid and doubled, and very extensive detraining stations constructed at various points along it, especially at Weiwertz and St. Vith.
From The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 by Various
