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detrain

[dee-trayn] / diˈtreɪn /






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They had hopped on in Denver and would detrain at the end of the line.

From New York Times ● Jul. 18, 2022

The Pennsylvania alone will handle more than 300 special trains, will detrain some 50,000 men at Manhattan, has appealed to their mothers and sweethearts not to stand around in the already crowded station.

From Time Magazine Archive

They had seen no troops detrain, or pitch camp.

From The Call of the Cumberlands by Charles Neville Buck

The Commander-in-Chief may be forced to ask Marshal French to co-operate with British Divisions as they detrain and without waiting for the whole of the detrainment to be carried out.

From 1914 by John Denton Pinkstone French, Earl of Ypres

All the afternoon as he watched he saw other and yet other groups and troops of men come up the railroad, detrain and push out ever farther upon the enveloping wings to east and west.

From The Shepherd of the North by Richard Aumerle Maher

I wonder what my ancestor from Scotland thought when he detrained at Los Angeles in the 1880s to take ownership of a farm in the San Fernando Valley nearby.

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2017

Mr. Del Gatto maneuvered the Jeep into an elevator; the Waldorf has one big enough, just as it has an all-but-secret railroad platform where President Franklin Delano Roosevelt detrained in 1944.

From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2015

At Peiping's Chienmen Railroad Station 600 stumpy little Japanese soldiers detrained from Tientsin, marched through the streets with full equipment to strengthen the guard.

From Time Magazine Archive

There, after breakfast, he detrained, climbed into an open car with Secretary of the Interior Ickes and set out to have his first look at some Civilian Conservation Corps camps.

From Time Magazine Archive

Headquarters had detrained at Ferreira in passing, and had joined the remainder of the battalion.

From Two Years on Trek Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa by Louis Eug?ne du Moulin

In fact, a recent study involving men in their 50s to 70s investigated the effects of completing a resistance training regimen, followed by a detraining period, then a retraining period, each consisting of 12 weeks.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2022

Why did the dead man obsess over a newsreel image of Mrs Bathurst detraining at Paddington?

From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2012

The destroyer Warrington was chosen by the Navy to convey Their Majesties from Sandy Hook to the Battery after detraining at Red Bank on their way from Washington to the New York World's Fair.

From Time Magazine Archive

Vith line has been relaid and doubled, and very extensive detraining stations constructed at various points along it, especially at Weiwertz and St. Vith.

From The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 by Various

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


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