monorail

as in railroad

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Recent Examples of monorail Disney monorail crawl:How to eat, drink your way around iconic Disney World resorts Is Disney Springs decorated for the holidays? Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024 Charlotte, whose nickname is Bowie, was last seen on the monorail near the Seattle landmark, Seattle Police Department confirms with PEOPLE. Charna Flam, People.com, 8 Oct. 2024 According to the posts, Bowie was last seen on the monorail in Seattle, Washington, near the Space Needle. Jessica Lynch, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Oct. 2024 In one snafu, Boring workers dug too close to a pillar for the Las Vegas monorail, and the convention center authority had to briefly shut the monorail down while determining whether the pillar had become unstable. Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for monorail 
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Noun
  • Both courses, for example, feature several elevated island greens with some fronted by aesthetically pleasing wooden railroad ties that prove to be deadly to any golf ball that dares to make contact.
    Carrie Coolidge, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
  • The railroad borrowed a piece of equipment from Metra that is essentially a wire brush towed behind a truck.
    Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 1 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • In Europe, a new underground railway system with driverless trains has opened in the Greek city of Thessaloniki.
    Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 7 Dec. 2024
  • At the center of the particular case the court is hearing is the question of whether, when deciding to build a railway line to transport oil in Utah, the environmental impacts of the oil’s production and refining should be considered.
    Rachel Frazin, The Hill, 5 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Environmentalists and local governments have argued that regulators failed to assess the broader environmental consequences of the project, including Gulf Coast air pollution and the risk of rail problems along the route.
    Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Then there’s a whole separate conversation about placing devices on the rail, which is where players rest their elbows and which sits slightly higher than the felt itself.
    Ben Dowsett, WIRED, 10 Dec. 2024
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  • This weekend, the Festival of the Arts returns to downtown Tempe and the APS Electric Light Parade returns to Phoenix, bringing with them road closures.
    The Arizona Republic, The Arizona Republic, 8 Dec. 2024
  • And just as was the case during Phelan's path to House leadership over the past two sessions, Burrows' road will travel through the heart of Democratic territory.
    John C. Moritz, Austin American-Statesman, 7 Dec. 2024

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