Sentence examples for set on a train from inspiring English sources

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Are O'Brien and Paterson certain MacNeice's "Charon" is set on a train?

Spanish company Atresbandes have a new show called Locus Amoenus, set on a train that is about to crash.

Another hit, L'Homme du hasard (1995; The Unexpected Man), was a two-character play set on a train traveling from Paris to Frankfurt.

Unlike "Art," "The Unexpected Man," which is set on a train, does not allow its two characters to speak directly to each other until the final moments.

For instance, the solution in Murder on the Orient Express is a detachable device that needn't be the ending of a mystery set on a train.

The first American film shot in postwar Europe, Berlin Express (1948) was a spy yarn set on a train, in which an American officer (Robert Ryan) and a French secretary (Merle Oberon) try to outwit the Nazi underground.

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John Cheever's "The Five-Forty-Eight" is a short story of heartbreak and revenge set on a commuter train.

It's mostly set on a commuter train bound for Chicago and heading for a terrible fate.

She married late, saved every penny she made, and gave her son a train set on his 21st birthday -- the Texas Midland Railroad.

Whenever she's onstage this "Twentieth Century," set on a New York-bound luxury train, picks up speed.

Set on a "slam-door" train (versus newer vehicles fitted with purportedly safer automatic doors), this compact picture finds half a dozen late-night riders stranded on a London commuter train whose brakes have been sabotaged.

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