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

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.

The men attacked it with dismay; Corvet's shout called them away and rallied them farther back; they ran with him to the car from which he had uncoupled it.

From The Indian Drum by Balmer, Edwin

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