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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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
As soon as our battalion had detrained, I hid behind some boxes on the pier; and when the last of the men were walking up the gangplank.
From Trenching at Gallipoli The personal narrative of a Newfoundlander with the ill-fated Dardanelles expedition by John Gallishaw
The Leinsters, who left Dunmow by train half an hour later, had detrained at this point at one o'clock, and just about three had met the patrols of the Rifles.
From The Invasion by William Le Queux
Not so far to their rear the Sans had detrained.
From Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore by Pauline Lester
It had detrained in the capital of the province from which its ranks had been recruited.
From The Last Shot by Frederick Palmer
