TRAIN in a Sentence

Learn TRAIN from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
420 example sentences for TRAIN, such as:
1. We had a long wait for the train.
2. I want to make an enquiry about train times.
3. The train service to the capital is very good.
4. Put Phil on the train and send him up with them.
5. The train is a quick and painless way to travel.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of TRAIN
train
 v.  teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
 v.  teach and supervise (someone); act as a trainer or coach (to), as in sports
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  It turned on the state of the roads and on the possible lateness of the Bettsbridge train.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
2  But his cheek touched hers, and it was cold and full of weeping, and he saw the road to the Flats under the night and heard the whistle of the train up the line.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
3  Not even at the terrible moment of parting, when he stopped by Tara on his way to the train, did she have a private talk.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
4  Scarlett stood on the lower step of the train, a pale pretty figure in her black mourning dress, her crepe veil fluttering almost to her heels.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
5  Put Phil on the train and send him up with them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
6  We'll take them off of him on the train going home.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
7  Uncle Peter, muffled in a quilt, was bringing out the carriage to take Ashley to the train.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
8  Atlanta had watched while train after train rolled through the town, hour after hour, passenger coaches, box cars, flat cars, filled with shouting men.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
9  Melanie could hardly be dragged away from the telegraph office and she met every train hoping for letters.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
10  It was an imposition on her and she knew that when the wounded came in on the noon train there would be enough work to keep her busy until night-fall--and probably without anything to eat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
11  The train bearing the wounded had already come in and the litter bearers were working swiftly in the hot sun, transferring wounded into ambulances and covered ordnance wagons.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
12  The rumor arrived on the train from Milledgeville this morning.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
13  Macon was their destination and many of those who took the train that night had already refugeed five and six times before, as Johnston fell back from Dalton.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
14  Mrs. Meade was disobedient for the first time in her married life and flatly refused to yield to the doctor's command that she take the train to safety.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
15  The train to Tara is the train to Macon and the same conditions prevail.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I want to make an enquiry about train times.
2  They're travelling across Europe by train and are planning to end up in Moscow.
3  The train chugged steadily along the West Highland Line.
4  An armed gang barged onto the train and began hacking and shooting anyone in sight.
5  Yesterday I retrieved the bag I left in the train.
6  They coupled the carriages of the train together.
7  This train would stop twice more in the suburbs before rolling southeast toward Munich.
8  The train left the track and plunged down the embankment.
9  The train is a quick and painless way to travel.
10  Various other groups of workers went on strike in solidarity with the train drivers.
11  Lisa watched until the train disappeared from view.
12  We had a long wait for the train.
13  The bridge collapsed under the weight of the train.
14  The train service to the capital is very good.
15  The train is just drawing into the station; if we hurry, we can catch it.