How to Use boxcar in a Sentence

boxcar

noun

• The night of the attack, police heard yelling and followed the noise to a boxcar.
  — Jayme Fraser, The Malheur Enterprise, idahostatesman, 6 May 2018
• The door to the boxcar was jammed partway open and snow was blowing in.
  — Justin Beal, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
• The boxcar in front of him might have a phalange that's worn down, so much that the wheels are catching.
  — Jenna Ross, Star Tribune, 23 Mar. 2021
• In fact, the once-largest dune, the Hoosier Slide, was carried off in boxcars as early as 1916.
  — Jacqueline Kehoe, National Geographic, 15 Feb. 2019
• The object of the game is for players to fill a boxcar with tokens and get it to the other side of a board.
  — Sophia Nguyen, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023
• He was schooled in the Brooks Scanlon logging camp, in a railroad boxcar with holes cut in the side.
  — oregonlive, 6 Feb. 2020
• How does a 12-seat restaurant that charges $97 a head to eat in a converted boxcar earn that title?
  — San Antonio Express-News, 8 Mar. 2018
• It’s the kind of device that a freight locomotive would use to hook up with a tanker of molten sulfur or boxcar of beer.
  — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 14 Oct. 2021
• Above also hangs a cardboard replica of a boxcar in which the Nazis would transport people to camps.
  — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2023
• Diaz drove Herrera to the job briefing site, a boxcar office on wheels.
  — Topher Sanders, ProPublica, 16 Dec. 2023
• The street boomed in the late 19th century when a large wooden boxcar factory was based there.
  — Alyson Krueger, New York Times, 18 May 2018
• The event, hosted at the Eighth Street brewery in Tempe, will feature beer can boxcars made by locals and brewers.
  — Tirion Morris, azcentral, 6 Feb. 2020
• In 1952, the first of four railroad boxcar shipments left Arlington for Bad Königshofen.
  — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 23 Mar. 2022
• For ice pick, rolling, and boxcar scars, Gross says to seek a collagen-boosting treatment, like the in-office laser Smooth Beam.
  — Audrey Noble, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Dec. 2020
• Case in point: a Richard Neutra beauty shaped like a boxcar that’s selling for $8 million.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2022
• In the boxcar—huddled in the packing straw, trying to stay warm—Buster would continue his story.
  — Justin Beal, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
• At one point, the explosions occurred in one-minute intervals and threw flaming splinters from the boxcar more than 10 miles away due to the wind.
  — Alana Minkler, The Arizona Republic, 29 July 2020
• While these can be good for rolling and boxcar scars, ice pick scars may require a more intense peel, like TCA (trichloroacetic acid) cross therapy.
  — Aryelle Siclait, Women's Health, 26 May 2023
• Since the days of the Transcontinental Railroad, boxcars have shuttled all manner of goods.
  — Paul Ziobro, WSJ, 10 June 2018
• His father worked in a cannery, among other jobs, and for a year the family lived in a nearby railroad boxcar.
  — New York Times, 2 Dec. 2020
• In the boxcar, the logistics of moving 10 courses on and off the table in close quarters meant the performance wrapped up in less than 90 minutes.
  — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Oct. 2021
• The other shipped out in boxcars along the rail line in an aborted British attempt to capture Vologda, a transportation hub about 460 miles south of Archangel.
  — Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2018
• As the train slowed to a stop, a boxcar derailed from the track, causing one tanker and seven additional boxcars to derail.
  — Elliot Hughes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2022
• Gross says there are four different types of acne scars one can get: ice pick, rolling, boxcar and hypertrophic.
  — Audrey Noble, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Jan. 2019
• For fans of the Boxcar Children iconic book series, this 1941 Santa Fe boxcar is a childhood dream come true.
  — Meg St-Esprit, Good Housekeeping, 29 Dec. 2022
• Six thousand years or more of human civilization have come to this: In the citadel’s central square is a tall metal pole with a Kurdish flag the size of a boxcar.
  — Rod Nordland, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2017
• Jumbo died after he was hit by a train in Ontario, Canada, as he was led back to his boxcar after a performance in 1885.
  — Fox News, 2 July 2019
• Even after the boxcar was vandalized and burned, people kept coming.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2021
• The whistle came first, a warning, followed by a distant roar, and then a bump, bump, bumping, as a hundred boxcars lurched past some distant crossing.
  — Southern Living, 15 Mar. 2017
• The whistle came first, a warning, followed by a distant roar, and then a bump, bump, bumping, as a hundred boxcars lurched past some distant crossing.
  — Rick Bragg, Southern Living, 13 July 2017

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024