detrain
verb (used without object)
to alight from a railway train; arrive by train.
had detrained
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past perfectof detrain.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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It had detrained in the capital of the province from which its ranks had been recruited.
From The Last Shot by Frederick Palmer
Not so far to their rear the Sans had detrained.
From Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore by Pauline Lester
For three days the battery lay here, twenty men going to Paris on a 48-hour pass, the others visiting La Ferté-sous-Jouarre, more thriving now than when we had detrained there three weeks before.
From Battery E in France 149th Field Artillery, Rainbow (42nd) Division by Frederic R. Kilner
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
Captain the Honourable Hedworth Lambton, R.N., had detrained his command of two 4.7-in., three 12-pr.
From History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government by Great Britain. War Office
