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. He went by the eight o'clock train.
2. We barely had time to catch the train.
3. Make certain what time the train goes.
4. The train came to a complete standstill.
5. We have plenty of time to catch the train.

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 Meanings and Examples of TRAIN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
train
 n.  a railroad engine and the connected containers run along the tracks to carry goods or people
 v.  prepare someone or yourself for a job, activity, or sport, by learning skills
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
5  Put Phil on the train and send him up with them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
6  We'll take them off of him on the train going home.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
12  The rumor arrived on the train from Milledgeville this morning.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  You'll have to hurry if you want to catch that train.
17  If you belt down the road, you'll catch your train.
18  We have plenty of time to catch the train.
19  We barely had time to catch the train.
20  Let's make an evening of it and catch the last train home.
21  Make certain what time the train goes.
22  The front coach of the train took the full impact of the crash.
23  We'll go by train as far as London, and then take a coach.
24  There's nothing quite like a real train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute.
25  The train came to a complete standstill.
26  Athletes have to train continuously to stay in peak condition.
27  It could make the difference between missing your train and getting to work on time.
28  He had a prophetic dream about a train crash the night before the rail disaster.
29  He went by the eight o'clock train.
30  You can get there by train or bus - either way/in either case it'll take an hour.