detrain
verb (used without object)
to alight from a railway train; arrive by train.
detrained
Example Sentences
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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
Then, muffled in a fur-lined khaki greatcoat and red cap, he detrained, saluted, shook hands with beaming Commissar Molotov.
From Time Magazine Archive
Headed by dark, spectacled C. Y. Cheng, a coal expert in Szechwan during the war, 22 Chinese engineers detrained at Fushun.
From Time Magazine Archive
At this point the scouts detrained, as it were, and deposited all their luggage on the ground.
From The Boy Scout Fire Fighters by Irving Crump
