Example Sentences

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On this metal- covered plain several trains are shunting slowly back and forth.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Astern the jettymen and stevedores are wrangling over their latest job; trains are shunting, cranes working, trucks discharging their cargoes amid clouds of dust.

From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir