Sentence examples for rails from inspiring English sources

The word 'rails' is correct and usable in written English
It can be used as both a noun and a verb. Example sentence: The train sped along the rails, covering the miles of track in record time.

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rails

noun

Plural of rail

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At the election, a majority of the generals must have felt willing to concede some power to keep Algeria on the rails; they may now be balking at the consequences.Humbler Algerians, railing against corruption and inequality, may also balk.

And, alas, two weeks after I had berated the JW Anderson sales assistant for not stocking a blue and white striped menswear shirt I wanted badly on its womenswear rails.

This is a strangely compelling argument for some: even though Bingu was clearly going off the rails towards the end of his life, the early years of his presidency had been marked by substantive economic development.

Rudd was elected leader of the Labour Party last year and his campaign to be prime minister could have hit the rails in August, when it was revealed that he had spent a drunken night in a New York strip club in 2003.

The system intervenes once kids are off the rails.

She spent long vigils lying, mud-splattered in the marshes, lens poking from vegetation, in pursuit of elusive water rails, bearded tits and a juvenile bittern, and her pictures proved the latter species was not extinct in Britain after all.

He subsequently – literally – goes off the rails and plunges into a deep dark cave.

A handful of beauty bars in the stores, and a spa within the Malmaison hotel – also inside the complex – offer a time out from scrabbling among the rails.

Some parts of the undercroft that I used to skate have long since been redeveloped – the sport's history lies in the way skaters have adapted to their environment – but a shopping arcade, however bijou, that removes the remaining banks and rails will be the kiss of death for a modern landmark in urban youth culture.

Not careful means tolerating bad bugs – a gram of faeces can carry 1m bacteria and 10m viruses – on banknotes, phones, tube train rails, everywhere, because we are too lazy to cleanse properly.

Greece's PM has to decide whether to accept more austerity as the price of remaining in the single currency So when the Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, rails against the stupidity of what is being demanded in return for the dubious privilege of staying in the euro, he is absolutely right.

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