How to Use train in a Sentence

train

1 of 2 noun
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  • No one on the train was injured, the spokesperson added.
    — Aaron Valdez, The Enquirer, 1 May 2024
  • Edens said the train speeds will exceed 200 miles per hour.
    — Kris Van Cleave, CBS News, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The Mariposa slide is the third in recent years to stop trains at San Clemente.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The train of the high-low style looks phenomenal blowing in the wind on the bow of a boat!
    — Nneya Richards, Travel + Leisure, 15 July 2023
  • The Philips Hue Bridge jumping on the Matter train will change a few things for users.
    — Amrita Khalid, The Verge, 31 Aug. 2023
  • In Staunton, the train will make a short stop before making the return trip back to Goshen.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 25 Sep. 2023
  • One of the world’s great true-life train heist stories is set to return to the big screen in China.
    — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Mar. 2024
  • They are often used to carry cars, trucks and trains across rivers or canyons.
    — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024
  • The three teens fled when the train pulled into the Broadway-Lafayette station, police said.
    — Christina Coulter, Fox News, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The next sighting of Josh, Christina said, was at a train station about five minutes from the club.
    — Kyani Reid, NBC News, 16 May 2023
  • Jason King said a northbound Coaster train struck the man.
    — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Police advised the man to get out of the car because a train was approaching.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 16 Sep. 2023
  • The truck became lodged against the front of the train and was swept about 2,400 feet further down the tracks before the locomotive came to a halt.
    — Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 26 May 2023
  • The engineer saw the vehicle and applied the emergency brakes but was not able to stop the train.
    — Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024
  • With the river at historic lows due in part to climate change, grain will have to be moved by train or truck instead.
    — Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
  • For instance, if a fire breaks out in a train station in the Line, many people will be directly cut off from much of the city.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 13 Sep. 2023
  • On the day the trial was to begin, a crowd assembled in Richmond to wait for the train from Washington.
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
  • This is another easy day trip that can be done via an hour-long train journey from Madrid.
    — Jamie Ditaranto, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Other train lines will run from 6 a.m. to midnight on Monday.
    — Ryan MacAsero, The Mercury News, 17 Feb. 2024
  • The bride wore an asymmetrical silk swag-sleeve dress with a Watteau train by Danielle Frankel.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 26 July 2023
  • Holding open the door or giving up a seat on the train or bus is more common outside of the States, where it might be viewed as a form of sexism.
    — Kathleen Peddicord, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • But all the different keys were the most important thing to have—keys to get into the train station, even keys to get into the trains.
    — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Crossing the city to get to an airport is no quick task, and doing so in comfort (via a cab as opposed to a train or bus) is pricey.
    — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Or, set your sights on the unrivaled mountain views from the New Tygart Flyer train.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 26 July 2023
  • Princess Iman, 26, and Princess Salma, 22, bent down to adjust the train at several points, making sure there were no mishaps or folds in the design.
    — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 1 June 2023
  • There are two departure points for this new sleeper train.
    — Everett Potter, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Videos from New York show groups of teens standing on trains, and others show people riding while holding to the outside of the train.
    — Joe Heim, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Aug. 2023
  • About 19% of riders go on to use Metrolink, a train or other form of public transit, surveys show.
    — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Just be aware that not all train lines accept the JRP, and that trains require advance seat reservations.
    — Ingrid Abramovitch, ELLE Decor, 7 Aug. 2023
  • In early November 2022, Griner was loaded onto a train with other female inmates.
    — J Wortham January Lavoy Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 2 May 2024
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train

2 of 2 verb
  • Once trained, the birds were free to ring the bell on their own accord.
    — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 2 May 2024
  • The interns are paid to work and train alongside some of the best journalists in the world.
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
  • The two met when Svensson was training a client at an L.A. gym.
    — Lindzi Scharf, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Winslet quickly whipped her head around and trained her eyes back toward the ocean.
    — Susan Dominus, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2024
  • In this case, the artists will have to establish that their works were used to train AI system.
    — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2023
  • She’s been hit with hot flashes and cold spells, headaches, and cramping, which is tough to train through.
    — Christine Yu, SELF, 4 Oct. 2023
  • It was used for training both pilots and ground crews during the war.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 7 Feb. 2024
  • In essence, the rowers trained for about 21 hours per week and had stronger upper bodies.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
  • His father was trained as a lawyer and worked in banking in Germany.
    — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 3 June 2023
  • The rats were trained to press a button that triggered a camera attached to their cage.
    — Issy Ronald, CNN, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Learning how to train our brain to work for us and not against us is easier said than done!
    — Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The boys have been trained to care for their own dormitories and building.
    — Sheila McCann, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Meanwhile, Guy, 13 years his junior, had been training to be a chef.
    — Penelope Green, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
  • On Thursday, the group held a webinar to train local activists on how to use it.
    — David Gilbert, WIRED, 8 Apr. 2024
  • He is trained to attack if given the correct set of orders, in German.
    — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
  • For the second straight day, a Bob Baffert trained 2-year-old triumphed in a maiden special race.
    — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Keepers trained the animals to leap over logs, stand perfectly still, and howl on cue.
    — Rene Ebersole, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2024
  • As part of his contract, Weidner was supposed to train a city attorney to take over the work.
    — Ben Wieder, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The team will fly directly from Monterrey to Kansas City and train there before the game.
    — Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Servers have been trained in the minute particulars of brewing a quality pot of tea.
    — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
  • An algorithm, after all, is only as good as the data it’s trained on.
    — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Cat ambassadors run in the zoo's cheetah encounter, appear in classrooms and are trained to travel and walk on a leash.
    — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 2 May 2024
  • Ann worked with Littlejohn’s team for weeks to train the system to recognize her brain’s unique signals for speech.
    — Byerin Prater, Fortune Well, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Creators get paid for their photos being used in training the service.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 25 Sep. 2023
  • On top of training him himself, Nick is hopeful Liam will follow in his footsteps one day.
    — Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The United States and other European countries have helped train the nation’s troops.
    — Sam Mednick, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2023
  • The celebrity chef is no stranger to the rich traditions of European food — he was trained at the French Culinary Institute.
    — Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 16 May 2023
  • While dermatologists are trained to spot the bumps, known as nodules, non-derm doctors may not be, Dr. Porter says.
    — Tatiana Walk-Morris, SELF, 22 Apr. 2024
  • For some eco-activists with an eye trained toward a bigger picture, cleanup has become something of a dirty word.
    — Tovah Martin, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
  • They will have been trained to ask questions that may reveal contributing causes.
    — Stanley Goldfarb, National Review, 21 Nov. 2023

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