Sentence examples for train pulled away from inspiring English sources
The phrase "train pulled away" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the action of a train departing from a station or location. Example: "As I waved goodbye, the train pulled away from the platform, taking my friend with it."
As the train pulled away, I called out, "Alice, please!" But she stood firm.
Lane Dean, Jr., felt sun on one arm as he pictured in his mind an image of himself on a train, waving mechanically to something that got smaller and smaller as the train pulled away.
Each time, as he waited, the woman seemed to recede, to grow smaller, losing significance — as though she were standing on a railway platform and he were at the window of a train, pulling away, waving goodbye.
Across Cornhusker Highway was a line of grain elevators, and day and night a steady flow of Burlington Northern trains pulled away, hauling loaded grain cars to market.
He keeps missing connections: "The train pulled out just as he brought his car to the station, and the longing he felt for the coaches as they drew stubbornly away from him reminded him of the humors of love.
They found that the predictions of how bad it would feel to have just barely missed a train were on average greater than reports of how it actually felt to watch the train pull away.
Not long ago, for instance, Gilbert, Wilson, and two other researchers — Carey Morewedge and Jane Risen — asked passengers at a subway station in Cambridge, Massachusetts, how much regret they thought they would feel if they arrived on the platform just as a train was pulling away.
She turned, and felt her purse being pulled away.
