Sentence examples for boxcar and from inspiring English sources

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"There's nothing better than riding the rails in a clean boxcar and watching the world go by".

Johnny spoke to other hobos moving along the gravel lanes between freights, and we found a boxcar and clambered aboard.

It begins with Guthrie travelling in a boxcar, and describes a Minnesota storm — "that bright crackling lightning that booms and zooms".

He painted his name on a board and nailed it on the boxcar, and the town's name was born, city officials say.

So he trudges off looking for work, leaps into a train boxcar and finds himself part of a rackety travelling circus.

On their last day of recording, the station was booked for a wedding party, so they moved their equipment into a vacant boxcar and recorded there.

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Wind slips through planks to disrupt any available sleep in boxcars and barracks.

Inside the gate, it is a dreary arena of asphalt, boxcars and tractor-trailers.

This day there were three empty boxcars and seven low-slung, graffiti-covered gondolas filled with scrap metal.

Herded into boxcars and massacred in death camps, the Jews of World War II evoke images of victims.

The city is known for its giant sinkholes, the legacy of a collapsing potash mine, which have been known to swallow railroad boxcars and automobiles.

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