How to Use freight train in a Sentence

freight train

noun

• No one else was on board the freight train, South said.
  — Chron, 17 Apr. 2023
• The train is believed to be a freight train, the commission said.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2024
• That amount, if placed in hopper cars, would fill a freight train long enough to circle the earth — and that's just from the last 44 years.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Feb. 2024
• The rest of the $50 million is planned for improvements at freight train crossings.
  — Summer Ballentine, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2023
• The sun glinted off the Anacostia River as a freight train rolled by.
  — Justin Wm. Moyer, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2023
• The world champs may be coming on like a freight train, but the most dangerous thing the Rangers could have done was react.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2023
• The music supervisor queued up the choo choo of a freight train, the clanging of an old-timey clock, and a chorus of pigeon coos.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
• In 2008, two tornado clouds in Riverside County flipped a big rig and derailed a freight train.
  — Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2023
• Rescuers used iron rods and ropes to work free one carriage of the passenger train that had been swept upwards to lodge on the roof of the freight train by the impact of the collision.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 17 June 2024
• The move follows the deaths of at least 275 people in a three-way crash involving two passenger trains and a freight train in eastern Odisha state on June 2.
  — Deepak Rao, CNN, 8 July 2023
• The freight train was traveling southbound toward Yarmouth, said Mass.
  — Claire Law, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2023
• It’s been nearly two weeks since a freight train derailed on the outskirts of East Palestine near the Pennsylvania state line.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• The report states that the crew of the freight train was notified to slow and stop by an alarm system on the train designed to detect overheated bearings.
  — Adam Sabes, Fox News, 26 Feb. 2023
• Two weeks have now passed since the freight train carrying a variety of hazardous chemicals derailed but the stench of what spilled hasn’t left.
  — Patrick Orsagos and John Seewer, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Feb. 2023
• Every so often — usually once a day — a freight train rolls off a barge at Sunset Park and rumbles along the bottom of the weedy trench, headed north.
  — Curbed, 13 Sep. 2023
• The accident happened after the driver of the freight train disregarded a signal and hit the rear end of the express train, Sinha added.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 17 June 2024
• Video from the front of the freight train showed the driver approaching the crossing in an area of Highway 92 in Plant City that reportedly wasn't signalized.
  — Hunter Geisel, CBS News, 24 Sep. 2023
• The move comes just days after thousands of migrants were seen on video, lined up along railroad tracks as a freight train passed nearly three hours south of Eagle Pass, Texas.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 18 Dec. 2023
• Portions of a freight train are seen in the Yellowstone River after an overnight railroad bridge collapse.
  — Ginger Adams Otis, WSJ, 26 June 2023
• The Dodgers are known for their team celebrations on hits, like the freight train move whenever getting a single, but the dance was something fans hadn't seen all year.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 22 July 2023
• Union leaders say freight train inspections are happening less often and are not as thorough as in the past due to staff cuts and time constraints.
  — Matthew Brown, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
• In 2022, the president stepped in to stop a potential strike by freight train conductors and engineers.
  — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 25 July 2024
• Few of us will ever fight an assailant on top of a moving freight train, or leap a motorcycle over an explosion.
  — Johnny Loftus, EW.com, 14 Nov. 2023
• Become a Subscriber That debacle was caused by a freight train ahead of them, which had crashed into an empty car parked on the tracks in rural South Carolina.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2023
• The incident involved a freight train with four diesel engines and numerous freight cars, fire officials said.
  — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 8 May 2024
• Look, this burgeoning, unstoppable freight train of a candidacy didn’t just fall out of a coconut tree.
  — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
• The July attack in the Bryansk region, which borders northern Ukraine, damaged a freight train traveling from Belarus and the railway track.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 27 July 2023
• Four people were killed and more than 20 others injured on June 6 when a passenger train collided with a freight train in Pardubice in the Czech Republic.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 28 June 2024
• Two new electric freight train corridors are expected to be fully running next year.
  — Nick Roll, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Apr. 2023
• Instead, this reconciliation feels fresh, fun — and hits like a goddamn freight train.
  — Bobby Olivier, SPIN, 20 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024