verb
Other Word Forms
- detrainment noun
Etymology
Origin of detrain
Example Sentences
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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
There they were to detrain and search every boat coming down from the north.
From Life in an Indian Outpost by Casserly, Gordon
It stirred the blood of everybody in our dull camp to see detachment after detachment of the second British brigade detrain.
From Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Burleigh, Bennet
To our utter disgust, after standing for hours in a siding of the station, chatting to all sorts and conditions of the species soldier, the order came to detrain.
From In the Ranks of the C.I.V. by Childers, Erskine
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