How to Use sleeping car in a Sentence

sleeping car

noun

• The detective hid behind the sleeping car as the grownups climbed the stairs.
  — Simon Rich, The New Yorker, 8 July 2021
• Such is the lofty ambition on which the principle of the sleeping car is based.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 4 May 2020
• That wise rider leaned out of a sleeping car and handed over some cash.
  — Caille Millner, SFChronicle.com, 28 June 2018
• The journalists were put in sleeping cars on the train, four bunks to a compartment.
  — Nick Wadhams, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2018
• Fares for sleeping cars include meals and use of first-class lounges in some big cities' stations.
  — Paul Davenport, chicagotribune.com, 20 Mar. 2018
• That said, the prospect of spending the night in a sleeping car understandably raises a number of questions.
  — Erika Mailman, Washington Post, 23 June 2022
• For many travelers, the timeless allure of long-haul train journeys can be found in the details: a cozy sleeping car, helpful staff, and views of charming towns rolling by.
  — Erika Mailman, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Apr. 2022
• The harsh working conditions aboard Pullman’s sleeping cars helped spur the birth of the African American labor movement.
  — USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2020
• The train was expected to continue north, with some of the sleeping car passengers being transferred to a different train.
  — CBS News, 7 Jan. 2018
• The discount does not apply to non-Acela business class tickets, first class or sleeping car accommodations.
  — Curtis Tate, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2019
• The collection also includes a sleeping car, a freight car used by NASA that carried helium and a passenger luxury car.
  — Mayra Cruz, Houston Chronicle, 7 June 2019
• The compartment comes with other perks: A sleeping car attendant who provides turndown service and assistance with meals and luggage.
  — Curtis Tate, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2020
• The chef, a waiter and another food service worker had been furloughed recently, leaving only the cafe attendant to prepare and serve food to sleeping car passengers in the dining car.
  — ExpressNews.com, 11 Oct. 2020
• The Belmond Royal Scotsman took its inaugural journey in 1985 with three dining carriages and modest sleeping cars.
  — Susmita Baral, Travel + Leisure, 3 Mar. 2023
• Pullman built luxury passenger cars for trains during the heyday of train travel, and was also once the nation's largest employer of African Americans, who worked as sleeping car porters on Pullman trains.
  — Curtis Tate, USA TODAY, 9 June 2020
• But the most dramatic of these protests came from Pullman sleeping car company workers, all black men, who endured brutal and demeaning working conditions for very little pay.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2019
• By the time Amtrak was created in 1970 to take over operation of the nation's remaining long-distance passenger trains, few sleeping car attendants had been hired in many years as train travel declined.
  — Curtis Tate, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2020
• Even before the Haymarket incident, George Pullman, the inventor of the railroad sleeping car, wanted to insulate his workers from radicals like Spies.
  — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 27 Sep. 2019
• The neighborhood was built by industrialist George M. Pullman in the 19th century for people who worked at his state-of-the-art factory building luxurious railroad sleeping cars.
  — USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2020
• The traditional dining service is included with Amtrak’s sleeping car service, but is available for all passengers.
  — Wayne Rash, Forbes, 8 June 2021
• The locomotive’s luxe, 592-square-foot president suite has a private entrance and includes a living room, office, bathroom and secondary sleeping car, per Travel + Leisure’s Dobrina Zhekova.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2022
• Today sleeping cars are a rarity, knocked out by budget airlines and their comparatively cheap fares, though a few European rail operators are moving to revive sleeper trains because of a recent increase in demand.
  — New York Times, 18 Dec. 2019
• In the late 19th century, companies like Pullman, a manufacturer of sleeping cars for trains, established such towns adjacent to their factories, even providing housing and collecting rent.
  — Suresh Naidu, Eric Posner, Vox, 6 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024