Sentence examples for distant trains from inspiring English sources

It's just that with the beat-driven Muzak emanating from some unidentifiable source, the rumble of distant trains, the clatter of rolling luggage and a live Peruvian panpipe version of Air Supply's "Without You" all mingling at high volume, the listener had to strain to hear Mr. Roker's voice, which sounds, it turns out, as if it's being transmitted via walkie-talkie.

With it came lilacs and apple trees, fireflies on summer evenings, the haunting moan of distant trains and peace so deep it still brings tears to my eyes.

It sounded like a distant train.

They could hear the river muttering and making a distant train sound a long way off.

Right now, in distant training camps and in crowded cities, there are people plotting to take American lives.

You can hear, on the seven soundtracks, the drone of an air-conditioner, the wind and a distant train whistle.

You hear on soundtracks the drone of an air-conditioner, the wind and a distant train whistle.

"I hear only the seagulls, the bell buoys and the distant train whistle," said the poet J. D. McClatchy, who, with his partner, the graphic designer and author Chip Kidd, divides his time between the borough and an apartment in Little Italy.

In some ways, my father's model was the kind of mythical American hometown we all yearn for: a place with picket fences and old men on a bench in the sun listening for a distant train whistle to signal noon.

His pursuits of thieves, con men and organized gangs take him on distant train journeys through a network of vast terminals and labyrinthine tracks, but to such a railway enthusiast, just climbing into the engine of one of those steam-snorting beasts is adventure enough.

Voiceover artists switched between characters at a row of microphones; live sound effects were created to the left of the stage, including a distant train whistle and the obligatory squeaky door; at the back of the theater, a sound engineer played prerecorded music while blending sound levels from more than a dozen microphones.