How to Use railway in a Sentence
railway
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The railway could not give a time when the train would move.
—cleveland, 21 Jan. 2022
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The railway said all train traffic was stopped in the area.
—cleveland, 18 Nov. 2022
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On the train to Kyiv, I was struck by how many fresh graveyards lined the railway tracks.
—Jens Stoltenberg, Foreign Affairs, 10 July 2023
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The train wheels lift the front tires off the track while the rear wheels stay down to propel the DMV onto the railway.
—Reuters, CNN, 24 Dec. 2021
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The monarch, 96, helped open a new railway named in her honor.
—Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, 17 May 2022
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The railway car was tricked out in all things lavender.
—Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 22 July 2022
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Following the crash near railway tracks, the bus caught on fire.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 3 Oct. 2023
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Record-breaking bridges The world’s tallest railway bridge is set to open in India at the end of this year.
—Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 6 May 2023
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Iran has some 8,700 miles of railway lines throughout the country that's about two and a half times the size of Texas.
—Nasser Karimi, USA TODAY, 8 June 2022
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The railway said the train was waiting for a new crew, which would take more than 90 minutes.
—cleveland, 11 Feb. 2022
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The railway — the highest in the U.S. — recently had a $100 million glow up.
—Lori Rackl, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2023
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Guardado said the city did put in a row of rocks along part of their alley next to the railway, to try to catch some of the water.
—Paige Fry, chicagotribune.com, 24 Dec. 2021
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What is being done about a tender for a railway link to Ghana?
—Reuters, CNN, 4 Oct. 2022
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His book about railways won the German Non-Fiction Prize in 1978.
—Sam Roberts, New York Times, 4 May 2023
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One of the 12 was dead, and three others were hospitalized, the railway said.
—Dennis Romero, NBC News, 27 Mar. 2023
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At the time, they were photographed sharing a kiss while at the Gare du Nord railway station in Paris.
—Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 8 Dec. 2023
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Entering the town along the railway line, the heavy vehicles gouged deep paths through the fields.
—Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2022
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By the time the troops pulled out at the end of March, two brothers, Yuriy and Viktor Pavlenko, who lived at the end of the street, lay dead in a ditch by the railway line.
—New York Times, 22 May 2022
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His tent sits next to a growing puddle of water that trails down from the railway.
—Jordan Anderson, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2022
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But nowadays, the old railway has been reclaimed and turned into a trail.
—Hazlitt, 2 Aug. 2023
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Smith and Havens also were the prime movers behind the famed Key System railway lines.
—George Avalos, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2025
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Smoke could be seen rising from the side of a railway station, Andriushchenko said.
—Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 27 May 2023
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The railway company had no idea why the train was not moving.
—cleveland, 25 Sep. 2022
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At the railway station, the Sichuan people were just like refugees or beggars. . . .
—Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
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So he’s being hit by as soft a thing as you can be hit by that’s gonna be hanging by a railway line in 1944.
—Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 July 2023
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New railways will cross the region and connect it with Europe and Asia.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
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Alaska had a railway line from Seward to Nenana, to which the serum was shipped and picked up by the first dog musher.
—Ned Rozell | Alaska Science, Anchorage Daily News, 6 May 2023
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Each features dauphine hands and a railway minutes track on the outer edges.
—Roberta Naas, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
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Direct trains from Milano Centrale railway station reach Stresa, as well as other towns along the west coast of the lake, in a little more than an hour.
—Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 16 Mar. 2025
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Serbia’s political crisis began after the canopy of a railway station in the city of Novi Sad collapsed in November, killing 15 people.
—Christian Edwards, CNN, 4 Mar. 2025
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