How to Use wagon train in a Sentence

wagon train

noun

• But life in a wagon train is fraught with hardship, fear, and death.
  — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 5 June 2023
• In the story of the wagon train journey, the group is only just leaving Texas.
  — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 30 Jan. 2022
• The wagon train meets a religious group being led west by a prophet.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2021
• There were women on the Mayflower and on the first wagon trains west, working alongside the men to forge new trails to new vistas.
  — Amber Jorgenson, Discover Magazine, 20 May 2019
• In 1883, the fiery teen set out from Fort Worth with her family on a wagon train, bound for a new life in the American west.
  — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 8 Jan. 2023
• The wagon train traveled northeast and was last spotted in St. Marys, Pa. Searchers found the wagons and the bodies of dead soldiers — and the gold was gone.
  — Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2018
• That is the only way to explain the series of misfortunes that have plagued the wagon train known as the Donner Party.
  — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 27 Dec. 2023
• To some extent, the wagon train is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
  — Kyle Stock, The Seattle Times, 7 Jan. 2019
• The wagon train is off from Doan’s Crossing, the final main trading post for at least a few months of travel, and into the wild west—bandits, war tribes, the works.
  — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 6 Feb. 2022
• Later, Kate retrieves her dead lover’s body and the wagon train continues west.
  — Jennifer Percy, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
• The storm rips through the wagon train destroying every wagon except for two.
  — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 6 Feb. 2022
• The rest of the wagon train ill-advisedly continues west.
  — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 27 Feb. 2022
• For Stewart’s character, that means helping a wagon train find its way to Oregon.
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 18 Jan. 2021
• For Stewart’s character, that means helping a wagon train find its way to Oregon.
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2024
• As early as the 1840s, citizens in Westminster had determined that the town would be more than a county seat and a wagon train stop on the turnpike west.
  — Kevin Dayhoff, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 21 Aug. 2021
• The whole thing actually started with a joke in the late '50s, when a Kiwanis Club organized a wagon train across the mountains.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 2 July 2022
• To Huntington, there was more than one wagon train, to use Fukuyama's image, and the ones on a different route were gathering speed.
  — Richard K. Betts, Foreign Affairs, 21 Oct. 2010
• When he’s brought it up in the past, Jones has attributed the wagon train comparison to Barry Switzer, which makes even more sense during a season like this one.
  — San Antonio Express-News, 13 Nov. 2021
• This space today is only for the sickest of puppies, and all the puppies have now fallen off the wagon train somewhere out West and hit their heads really hard.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 22 July 2021
• In these episodes, the story of the wagon train heading West has reflected the deadly dangers and obstacles faced by those who traveled on the Oregon Trail.
  — oregonlive, 27 Feb. 2022
• Roy is something of a Man With No Name, a lonesome cowboy on a wagon train through the stars who runs into an assortment of intriguing people along the way.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2019
• The wagon train with all his supplies and baggage—including, crucially, the king’s treasury—sank without a trace.
  — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2020
• Though many of its elements are familiar to the point of being worn out — saloons and wagon trains, Indians and gold prospectors — the novel is not.
  — Lawrence Downes, New York Times, 2 May 2018
• Despite the harsh conditions and extreme danger involved in the expansion of the West, wagon trains of new settlers keep coming.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 May 2024
• The wagon train traveled northeast and was last spotted in St. Marys, Pennsylvania.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 18 Mar. 2018
• Giant video screens project images of buffalo running, and wagon trains moving through a backdrop of mountains and open range.
  — Philip Kennicott, kansascity, 3 July 2018
• Because the Ukrainian rail system is built with wider-gauge tracks than the European network, the undercarriage of the cars has to be switched before the five-wagon train can move on toward Kyiv.
  — Marc Santora Lynsey Addario, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2022
• Twenty years earlier, in the 1840s, citizens in Westminster had decided that the town would be more than a county seat and a wagon train stop on the turnpike west.
  — Kevin Dayhoff, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 25 Dec. 2020
• Costner himself doesn’t arrive on screen for an hour, and just when there’s a sense the threads might start to coalesce, an entirely new one emerges regarding a wagon train.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 27 June 2024
• The West is a saga of God and commerce, homesteaders and cowboys, politicians and opportunists, wagon trains and slaughtered natives, grizzlies and coyotes, and mesas, buttes and gorges.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2019

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024