had uncoupled
- past perfect of uncouple.
Example Sentences
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The crash happened when a passenger train hit cars that had uncoupled from another train.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2023
Meanwhile, up in front trainmen had uncoupled the special's engine and baggage car.
From Time Magazine Archive
The car they had uncoupled to prevent his departure was run up and coupled again; and then, amid cheers of mournful farewell, they let him go.
From Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray by Wood, William Charles Henry
Teddy had uncoupled Car Three from the others in their rear, and the cars of his rivals were dropping behind rapidly.
From The Circus Boys on the Plains : or, the Young Advance Agents Ahead of the Show by Darlington, Edgar B. P.
I had been for some days skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail, as some ill-advised people had uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at my heels.
From Stories of Authors, British and American by Chubb, Edwin Watts
