sleeping car
a railroad car fitted with berths, compartments, bedrooms, or drawing rooms for passengers to sleep in.
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How to use sleeping car in a sentence
Clearly this is no way to run a railroad, and Amtrak has announced a plan that involves doing away with sleeping cars after already changing dining cars to cafe cars.
Aboard Amtrak’s Crescent, surprising comfort and welcome seclusion on a slow train to Mississippi | Scott Butterworth | January 1, 2021 | Washington PostThe ladies, the baby and the maid had a compartment of the sleeping car to themselves and journeyed comfortably enough.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume II (of 3) | Charles James WillsNo matter how far ahead I planned my trips and tried to make reservations I could never get a lower berth in a sleeping-car.
The Affable Stranger | Peter McArthurIt can be hooked on the head, foot or side rail of the bed or used, as shown, in a sleeping car.
The Boy Mechanic, Book 2 | VariousHow could you suppose a serpent could get on board a sleeping-car, of all places in the world!
The Sleeping Car | William D. Howells
It was his custom, he said, to knock down the elevator boys and sleeping-car porters.
The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society | Upton Sinclair
British Dictionary definitions for sleeping car
a railway car fitted with compartments containing bunks for people to sleep in
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