Sentence examples for trains back and forth from inspiring English sources

While researching his first book he rode on freight trains back and forth across the western United States with some of the country's last remaining hoboes.

Now, there are all kinds of people who take the Midtown Direct trains back and forth to Manhattan each day: bankers and lawyers, fashion designers and editorial assistants.

At rush hour, the railway tunnels under the Hudson River between Manhattan and New Jersey operate at peak capacity, so there is no way to run more trains back and forth even though the demand is great.

Another friend of mine rode trains back and forth between two local towns, meeting people, exploring, then returning before dark, and nothing bad ever happened to him.

He was able to deceive Halleck into thinking the Confederates were about to attack; he ran empty trains back and forth through the town while whistles blew and troops cheered as if massive reinforcements were arriving.

"It sort of grew out of this realization that we're all doing this gala show together, and we're all riding the train back and forth together to work on projects on or Off Broadway," said Charlie Pollock, 37, an actor who lives in South Orange and has performed in "Urinetown" and "9 to 5: The Musical" on Broadway.

At night, he rode the F train back and forth between Jamaica, Queens, and Coney Island, learning that by the time a train made two complete circuits, it would be late morning, time for him to help a food salesman on Canal Street attach his food cart to his car.

To make sure that people don't just pile up easy mileage, you can't go back into a country once you leave it and you can't repeat a length of rail (e.g. you can't take the Paris to Marseilles bullet train back and forth to pile up miles).

In other words, for around the price of one-way flight from Toronto to Montreal, you could spend an entire month riding the train back and forth between Vancouver and Halifax, up to Churchill, down to Windsor, wherever you wanted providing there was room in economy class.

I have a theory: Trains rock back and forth, which mimics being rocked to sleep, and planes bump up and down, as if you're being shaken awake.

As Stalin's trains snake back and forth across the parched land, their carriages crammed with the victims of his purges, the director of photography, Khasanbek Kydyraliev, squeezes sentiment from vivid close-ups of railway ties and the desperate games of children running wild.