monorail

as in railroad

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Recent Examples of monorail The Seattle Police Department confirmed Charlotte was last seen on the monorail near the Space Needle in Seattle. Ilana Kaplan, People.com, 8 Oct. 2024 Animal Kingdom visitors will be able to go directly to the park via the shuttle, while those heading to Magic Kingdom will first be taken to a transport hub, Disney’s Ticket and Transportation Center, and can then choose to either take a monorail or ferry to the park from there. Christine Burroni, Travel + Leisure, 6 Oct. 2024 Inglewood’s local authorities have also signed off on plans to increase transport links, including a monorail connecting to the metro system, and United are looking at whether there is merit for similar public-private partnerships in their proposals. Laurie Whitwell, The Athletic, 29 July 2024 As of midday Wednesday, Wolfe reported that the Disney’s monorail and riverboats were still running. Erin Clements, People.com, 9 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for monorail 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for monorail
Noun
  • Now all that remained of the once-majestic railroad were gutted stations and, in the few areas where militias had not scrapped the metal for weapons, rusty, overgrown fragments of track.
    Youmna Melhem Chamieh, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
  • He was born in Manhattan, New York, the younger son of author Wyatt Emory Cooper and socialite/artist Gloria Vanderbilt, who was a direct descendent of shipping and railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt and the last to carry his name.
    Sophie Hanson, StyleCaster, 31 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Allcroft’s interest in the characters from this book series stemmed from her involvement in a 1979 documentary film about a railway in Sussex, which is featured in the books themselves.
    Andrés Buenahora, Variety, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Firefighters responded to the area of the Lafayette Road railway overpass, near Union Gospel Mission and the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office, about 9 p.m. Wednesday.
    Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 2 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Saboteurs have targeted a number of other strategically significant assets in Europe—munitions factories, crucial rail lines—along with civilian infrastructure such as warehouses and malls.
    Phillips Payson O’Brien, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2025
  • New footage of California's high-speed rail project has revealed how much progress has been made.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 12 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The Capitol Police have stepped up security for the event, closing roads and increasing patrols around the Capitol grounds.
    Kate Selig, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Crews will be working around the clock, but icy roads and downed trees are slowing progress.
    Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 6 Jan. 2025

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“Monorail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monorail. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.

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