Sentence examples for railroad platform from inspiring English sources

Katie Jarvis was discovered on a railroad platform, arguing with her boyfriend; she had never acted before, and she doesn't modulate her voice as a trained actress would.

Hundreds of sullen commuters sardined on a railroad platform and no train in sight, the sky low and gray, the wind snapping.

Interspersed are images of firefighters by their fire engines, police officers walking with construction workers, and commuters waiting at a railroad platform.

Mr. Kinnally said the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has said it is willing to extend the southbound railroad platform so that it is facing the one headed north to help create a transit center for the new area.

"I'll show 'em a real family!" one jubilant snapshooter brags ("He's something to brag about, that new baby of yours"); another spread shows two commuters on a railroad platform, one of them enviously studying the other's snapshots and thinking, "I felt ashamed.

This philosophy was reflected in the early scene from The Band Wagon, when Fred Astaire walks down a railroad platform singing "By Myself".

"Far more Illinoisans heard Lincoln and Douglas on courthouse steps, from railroad platforms, from hastily hammered-together stands at country fairs and from the flatbeds of wagons than heard them in face-to-face debate," he writes.

Among the differences from airport inspections, he said, was the kind of equipment that the security agency could use; the type it has installed at airports could not be used in the heat, cold and wet of railroad platforms, he said.

Time Warner Cable Wi-Fi is now available at several Wi-Fi zones in Manhattan and Queens, including several parks and some Long Island Railroad platforms and their respective parking lots in the company's service area.

She described classes taking place on railroad platforms or in small cabins and students walking along a bamboo bridge to commute to school.

Boiled and shaped into bricks, the goods were loaded on railroad platforms pulled by mules or horses over tracks through the jungle to the port, then shipped around the world.