detrain
verb (used without object)
to alight from a railway train; arrive by train.
were 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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The real enjoyment of the trip, however, Cappy found down at the breaking corrals where the horses were detraining.
From Cappy Ricks Retires by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne
Looking forward, he saw that the soldiers were detraining.
From The Girl from Alsace A Romance of the Great War, Originally Published under the Title of Little Comrade by Burton Egbert Stevenson
