Railroad means A permanent track consisting of fixed metal rails to drive trains or similar motorized vehicles on. This page lists 20 example sentences from real texts, plus synonyms like railway or force.
Railroad in a sentence
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Railroad meaning
- A permanent track consisting of fixed metal rails to drive trains or similar motorized vehicles on.
- The transportation system comprising such tracks and vehicles fitted to travel on the rails, usually with several vehicles connected together in a train.
- A single, privately or publicly owned property comprising one or more such tracks and usually associated assets
Example sentences (20)
Cody, dressed like a railroad tycoon, gave Sami all the props in the world before Paul Heyman walked to the ring.
After high school, he began as an apprentice at the Maine Central Railroad and worked there as an electrician for 41 years.
An outdoor tent city for the homeless across from the city’s historic railroad depot in downtown Anchorage.
Bank of America upgraded the railroad operator to a buy from neutral rating, citing the leadership change.
An Alaska Railroad freight train is surrounded by snow after driving into an avalanche slide near Girdwood early on Tuesday, Jan.
Cheung superimposes a picture of a railroad spike onto the picture, while one of Florence Ho Leong’s eyes is covered with a coin.
Editorial: If L.A. air quality officials go soft on toxic railroad pollution, are the ports next?
The railroad utilizes a variety of wayside railroad signals including position light, color light and dwarf signals.
A daunting 100 miles away, citizens mobilized to build a railroad to connect Denver to the transcontinental railroad.
A group of men stand near the Manassas Railroad Junction railroad tracks in 1862 with a train in the background.
Railroad agreement (1949–1952) Several proposals were offered for moving the railroad tracks, including: * Bates-Ross.
The fire started between Highway 28 and Railroad Avenue near Oasis Park and jumped Railroad Avenue to spread to a field.
These are railroad towns, a lot of them, and their history –the “region’s history”—is the railroad’s history.
After the Reading Railroad fails, the free hand of the self-regulating market reaches for the economy’s throat and nearly chokes it to death.
During the days of the railroad construction, plans were laid to bring the railroad through Columbia, then the county seat.
A number of railroad workers were black listed and could not get a job on a railroad in the United States.
The Railroad TIF District starts east of Interstate-15, and includes land for several blocks on either side of the railroad.
Union Pacific Railroad will be closing Calpine Road (A23) at the railroad crossing near State Route 70.
Underground Railroad The Old Rock House in Alton, seen June 22, 2023, is an Underground Railroad site.
Upgrades would have to be made in railroad equipment, tracks, ties, bridges, etc. as the railroad became profitable or wore out.
Phrases with railroad
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with railroad
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the railroad 67×
- railroad tracks 19×
- underground railroad 13×
- railroad and 13×
- pacific railroad 12×
- railroad workers 9×
- railroad was 8×
- railroad to 8×
- of railroad 7×
- railroad in 7×
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The 20 examples on this page contain the complete word railroad. Duplicate, incomplete, unusually short and technically noisy sentences are removed automatically. The definition is sourced from Wiktionary. Read more about our sources and checks on the About Voorbeeldzinnen.info page or see how to report a correction.