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Locomotive
"Locomotive" in a Sentence (12 examples)
The locomotive was pulling a long line of freight cars.
We were wakened by the whistle of the steam locomotive at dawn.
The locomotive is at the end of the train.
The locomotive derailed and tumbled around before it was stopped by a huge concrete wall at the station.
Today, the locomotive is pushing the cars in the train.
The Locomotive Act of 1865 required cars driving on public roads to be preceded by a man on foot waving a red flag and blowing a horn.
The locomotive was offered for sale but it was later scrapped, as no purchaser was found.
The locomotive pulls the railroad cars.
The locomotive was disconnected from the railroad cars.
“Ding-dong! Ding-dong! Ding-dong! Ding-dong!” clashed the great bell on the locomotive, and with much creaking and clanking and letting off of steam, with iron scraping on iron and one last, long drawn whistle of the air-brakes, the train came slowly to a stop.
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As on all other British Railways standard locomotives to date, the lubrication of motion pins and reversing gear is by grease nipple and gun.
Pindar seems to imply that these figures were actually locomotive automata.
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