Example Sentences

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Garth said that teenage friends of his would sometimes cajole motormen into letting them drive the streetcars into town from Glen Echo late at night.

From Washington Post • Feb. 6, 2021

Timed signals not only indicate to motormen when they are speeding but automatically trip the brakes to stop a train that passes a red light without permission.

From New York Times • Nov. 1, 2018

She greeted the train operator — they are no longer known as motormen — in the first car before taking her place in the booth in the sixth, in the middle of the train.

From New York Times • May 25, 2013

He built support among blacks as an early Republican proponent of civil rights, ordered integration of state-owned parks and beaches, and ended Baltimore's ban on black public-transit motormen.

From Time Magazine Archive

At nineteen she was teaching school for eight months of the year and the other four peddling toilet articles and a few side lines and now planning to feed the motormen on the interurban trolleys.

From The Comings of Cousin Ann by Sampson, Emma Speed