How to Use brakeman in a Sentence

brakeman

noun

• McGuffie was chosen as a brakeman, last man in the sled, for pilot Cody Bascue in the two- and four-man race.
  — Alvaro Montano, Houston Chronicle, 17 Feb. 2018
• Justin Olsen has an Olympic bobsled gold medal as a brakeman, and now gets the chance to pursue one as a driver.
  — Tim Reynolds, The Seattle Times, 15 Jan. 2018
• The fireman and brakeman on the moving train leaped from the engine’s cab before the collision.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2018
• And Schroeder later met Regis Schilling, a brakeman on the train who also was a linoleum artist.
  — cleveland, 2 Feb. 2022
• So, Adigun joined the United States’ bobsled team as a brakemen.
  — Johnny Dodd, PEOPLE.com, 7 Feb. 2018
• Meyers Taylor has won silver medals as a driver at the last two Games, as well as a bronze as a brakeman in 2010.
  — USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2022
• So the difference between the brakemen who make the Olympic team and don't is going to be a couple hundredths of a second.
  — Hanna Howard, Teen Vogue, 18 Feb. 2018
• On a whim that same year, he was hired on by the Union Pacific railroad, working as a brakeman, and later, an engineer.
  — Jesse Will, Outside Online, 15 Mar. 2022
• As a brakeman, Michener is responsible for helping to slow the sled down, a process that can take a football field or more to complete.
  — Jay Willis, GQ, 16 Feb. 2018
• The family moved to Flagstaff, Arizona, where Imus joined the Marines before taking jobs as a freight train brakeman and uranium miner.
  — Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2019
• Adigun, 31, soon convinced fellow former runners Ngozi Onwumere and Akuoma Omeoga to join the team as brakemen.
  — Tim Brown, OregonLive.com, 4 Feb. 2018
• The other team members are fellow brakeman Ngozi Owumere and driver Seun Adigun.
  — USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2018
• These days, volunteers say need more people to run the train, serving in such roles as engineer, conductor or brakemen.
  — By Karen Ridder, kansascity.com, 23 May 2017
• Shortly after returning from Sochi, Elana began recruiting for her new brakeman — the person who pushes the bobsled forward at the beginning of a race and pulls the brake at the end of it.
  — Shannon Barbour, Cosmopolitan, 22 Jan. 2018
• The technology would end the days of brakemen running on top of train cars to individually apply the brakes, a system that often required miles for a train to stop.
  — Thomas Gryta, WSJ, 23 May 2018
• Any reasonably fit person can take a bobsled run (with both a professional driver and a brakeman keeping things safe) at the Olympic Sports Complex.
  — Fox News, 23 Feb. 2012
• Even in bobsled, the relationship between driver and brakeman doesn’t require the same amount of synchronization between partners through every curve.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2018
• Eager to leave being a clerk and getting into actual railroad operations, Mr. Amos went to work as a brakeman and after being furloughed became a fireman shoveling coal into the fireboxes of steam engines.
  — Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 18 Nov. 2020
• The train’s crew had been cooperative, and investigators were scheduling interviews with two other train crew members — a conductor and a brakeman, officials said.
  — Matt A.v. Chaban and Emma G. Fitzsimmons, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2016

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024