detrain
verb (used without object)
to alight from a railway train; arrive by train.
was detraining
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past progressiveof detrain.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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While it was detraining, Sir John had some very hard thinking to do.
From The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) From the First Battle of Ypres to the End of the Year 1914 by James Edward Parrott
By four in the afternoon of the nineteenth Jackson was detraining at Manassas.
From Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray by William Charles Henry Wood
In addition to the above forces, one Brigade was detraining at Cambrai yesterday, and reserve troops are holding entrenched positions about Mons and Valenciennes, numbers variously reported from 50,000 to 70,000.
From 1914 by John Denton Pinkstone French, Earl of Ypres
