Sentence examples for a freight car from inspiring English sources

The plane took off, rattling like a freight car.

Author tells about a trip in a freight car from Califoria to Denver, in zero weather.

After the war, Oskar finally resumes growing — in a freight car.

Wilson had a near miss when a freight car rammed his Pullman sleeper.

There was the sugar refinery laborer who fell asleep in a freight car while taking his lunch break.

Daniel was lying on the hard floor of a freight car, wrapped in an old piece of sackcloth.

At thirty-three, hadhad served a term in an Albany jail for burglary and had twice been to Atlanta, once for a freight-car robbery, once for impersonating a federal officer.

I waited for the middle of a train, until a freight-car's short, iron ladder swung near, and grabbed it as I jogged along side, jumped and swung my legs onboard.

They'd expected to be riding outside, in an open boxcar or in the convertible of a ridable freight car, a 48-foot well – a five-foot-deep cubbyhole beside the double stacks of shipping containers.

They'd expected to be riding outside, in an open boxcar or in the convertible of a ridable freight car, a 48-foot well a five-foot-deep cubbyhole beside the double stacks of shipping containers.

Jack Creek was big enough to require a bridge, a sturdy structure made from the floor of a railroad freight car.