Sentence examples for sleeping car from inspiring English sources

The phrase "sleeping car" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to an enclosed railroad car or train car designed in such a way that passengers can sleep in beds or bunks. For example: "My family took a long train ride to our vacation destination, so we decided to book sleeping cars for the overnight journey."

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sleeping car

noun

A railroad car with sleeping facilities for passengers travelling overnight.

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It consisted of a kitchen and dining car, a sleeping car and two local coaches.

He offered to help upgrade her ticket from a seat to a sleeping car.

"We won't get there in a sleeping car," grumbled Baden-Württemberg's premier, Günther Oettinger.

On Aug. 25, 1925 the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was inaugurated in NY.

We slept in the Bordello, a converted 1956 Pullman sleeping car.

For the less ambitious, or the exhausted, how about a sleeping car?

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But sleeping-car sleep is in a category of its own: your mind rests while your body goes the distance.

A weekly sleeping-car links Istanbul with Aleppo in Syria, through great scenery including a dramatic descent from the Taurus mountains.

The Coast Starlight had two of them: the Sightseer Lounge, open to all passengers, and the Pacific Parlour Car, for sleeping-car passengers.

The wraparound view from the observation car, at the back of the train, seemed less satisfying to her than the view from the sleeping-car window.

PARIS — Her head resting amidst a profusion of roses and other flowers, a young woman was found lying unconscious in a berth of a sleeping-car of the Nord Express on the arrival of that train from Berlin yesterday afternoon.

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