hospital train
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of hospital train
First recorded in 1870–75
Example Sentences
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On Saturday a government official also said that the country sent a hospital train that will pick up those wounded in the war in Mostyska, in western Ukraine, and bring them to Warsaw for treatment.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2022
As a hospital train travelled through the Lancashire mill town of Accrington, a wounded soldier shouted out the window: "Accrington? Accrington Pals! They've been wiped out!"
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2016
Ramadi's main hospital, train station, nearly 2,000 homes, 64 bridges and much of the electricity grid were destroyed in fighting, a preliminary U.N. survey found last month.
From Reuters ● Apr. 12, 2016
Jean Sabo was an Army nurse, assigned to a hospital train in Europe.
From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2013
When I am back again with Kropp I tell him apparently a hospital train comes in tomorrow morning.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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