How to Use railroad in a Sentence

railroad

1 of 2 noun

• If the Fortune 500 had been around then, railroad firms would have been at the top of the list.
  — Mickey Butts, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
• For years the right-of-way had been leased out by the railroad companies.
  — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2023
• Nor were any roads, bridges, canals or railroad tracks.
  — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2023
• His body was found in a shallow hole near railroad tracks.
  — Callie Cassick, Fox News, 26 Dec. 2023
• The railway board then voted to change the deal with the railroad buyer to comply with the charter.
  — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 4 Jan. 2024
• And some 100 cars lined up for free gas near the town's former railroad station.
  — Reis Thebault, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2023
• This area of the lake was separated from the South Arm in the 1950s with the construction of a railroad causeway.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Dec. 2023
• The park, which opens March 27, sits on a 17-acre site between the river and the railroad tracks enslaved people were forced to lay.
  — Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2024
• In the end, the controversial plan for a highway along the railroad tracks and through Takoma Park was scrapped.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 12 July 2023
• The benefits there are the same, except that the railroad is a few blocks inland from the beach and safe from coastal erosion.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2023
• As Sheppard recalled in her diary, the troupe left the hotel with the mob still in tow and walked to the railroad stop, where the choir began to sing a hymn.
  — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
• To put it in simpler terms: Megalodons were longer than school buses and as heavy as a railroad car.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 12 June 2023
• Dirt and debris have fallen near the tracks, but the railroad is undamaged.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 May 2023
• The railroad has promised to create a fund to help pay for the long-term health needs of the community, but that hasn’t happened yet.
  — Josh Funk, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2024
• Planes could never meet the military’s freight demands, and putting in a railroad would take a decade.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2023
• Then get out on the water: Heimann recommends kayaking around the old railroad trestles on the north end of the island.
  — Skye Sherman, Travel + Leisure, 22 Aug. 2023
• The Delaware and Hudson Rail Trail is a 19.8-mile-long stretch of former railroad.
  — Gina Martinez, CBS News, 11 Oct. 2023
• Amtrak owns the station’s platforms and railroad tracks.
  — Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 13 May 2023
• The railroads say there isn’t any data to show one-person crews are riskier than two-person crews.
  — Stephen Groves and Josh Funk, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
• Just blocks away, dozens of tents lined the railroad tracks — an encampment where some of the city’s roughly 1,000 homeless people stay.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• Some railroads operate trains that are three miles long.
  — Luz Lazo, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Apr. 2023
• As part of efforts to stabilize the slide areas, OCTA has added boulders between the beach and the railroad tracks.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2024
• My father worked for the railroad, and our family was allocated space in a freight car on a train that was to take us out of Ukraine.
  — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2023
• Corruption, in the justices’ eyes, is when a railroad tycoon hands a politician a burlap sack with a big dollar sign on it.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2023
• The remains were found on a railroad trestle in Glades County, Florida on Feb. 1.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2024
• The Great Peshtigo Fire started as a brush fire, likely caused by railroad workers clearing land for tracks.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Dec. 2023
• Phil Diehl was recognized for his reporting on the instability of the bluffs in Del Mar and the threat to the railroad tracks that pass nearby.
  — U-T Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2023
• Instead, it would be sent back to Ohio under the latest plan proposed by the Norfolk Southern railroad.
  — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 10 May 2023
• Commuter railroads and subway lines in many places have also failed to become faster.
  — David Leonhardt, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• The railroads argue that the industry’s overall safety record has been improving even as trains have grown longer and crew sizes shrank over the decades.
  — Marc Levy, Fortune, 27 June 2023

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railroad

2 of 2 verb

• They claim she was railroaded.
• There are a lot of black men who get railroaded or the system doesn't treat right.
  — Mark Elibert, Billboard, 17 Jan. 2018
• The Russia probe isn't the first time Mueller and his pals have been accused of trying to railroad a big name politician.
  — Fox News, 5 May 2018
• Well, his wife is saying that he was railroaded by Mueller and Comey's bestfriend.
  — Fox News, 5 May 2018
• The amendments were disclosed on the eve of the committee vote, and railroaded through without any time for debate.
  — Makena Kelly, The Verge, 5 July 2018
• Those changes have been a boon to railroad investors and executives.
  — Niraj Chokshi, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2023
• Twitter is trying to railroad Mr. Musk to complete the deal while burying the truth over the number of fake and spam accounts, Mr. Rossman said.
  — Dave Michaels, WSJ, 19 July 2022
• To railroad companies around the world, that wasn’t acceptable.
  — Michael Downing, Smithsonian, 9 Mar. 2018
• After all, this is the story of a crooked Southern sheriff railroading a white man.
  — New York Times, 3 May 2018
• So half of the country's going to believe, or 40% of the country believes that McCabe was railroaded.
  — NBC News, 18 Mar. 2018
• So the skeleton was taken apart by researchers from the university, put into bags and tied to railroad wheels.
  — Kale Williams, OregonLive.com, 30 Jan. 2018
• Now the Supreme Court must decide if McCoy was railroaded and deserves a new trial.
  — Editors, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2018
• The 15th Street viaduct, part of a series of elevated streets that spanned from the west side of the Platte River to upper downtown, bridged over an area of supply railroads the city tried not to see.
  — Nick Groke, The Denver Post, 6 Apr. 2017
• Jesse Daniels was railroaded to the state mental hospital at Chattahoochee, a wrong that sprawled over 14 years, even though the victim said she had been raped by a black man.
  — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 8 May 2018
• Three of the men are still suing Cook County based on the allegation that prosecutors helped railroad them.
  — Dan Hinkel, chicagotribune.com, 8 Dec. 2017
• Such are characters that villains tie to railroad tracks in melodramas.
  — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2021
• Despite a lack of evidence, Banks is railroaded through a broken justice system and sentenced to a decade of prison and probation.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 4 Aug. 2019
• Some miners and miners’ families echoed Mr. Blankenship’s charges that he had been railroaded.
  — New York Times, 8 May 2018
• Berg rightly argues that the teens were railroaded, and DNA evidence years later appeared to implicate the stepfather of one of the deceased.
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• Some Democrats argued that Franken had been railroaded and that the complaints should have been fully investigated.
  — Li Zhou, Vox, 30 May 2018
• Along the way, the prince has railroaded changes in the kingdom’s social order that seemed out of reach not that long ago, including the removal of the country’s notorious religious police.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2019
• Courts have consistently found that right-of-way uses should further railroad purposes, Wu wrote.
  — Bettina Boxall, latimes.com, 21 June 2019
• In the world of railroading, keeping the trains moving is paramount, and Norfolk Southern Corp. has little tolerance for late departures.
  — Esther Fung, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2023
• This is a story about a Black man railroaded and ultimately killed by white citizens and law enforcement.
  — Chris Vognar, Chron, 21 Apr. 2023
• But that block has been eliminated to avoid impacts to railroad operations along Harbor Drive.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2023
• Shooter argued the investigation was an effort to railroad him from the chamber, rather than earnestly probe harassment at the Capitol.
  — Andrew Oxford, azcentral, 5 Feb. 2020
• Sheinbaum denied Carmona’s claims that he was being railroaded in a high-publicity bid to help her campaign.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2023
• But there are also concerns that the proposal is being railroaded through the approval process, with little thought about its impact on the reviving Riverside enclave or Penn Treaty Park.
  — Inga Saffron, Philly.com, 28 June 2018
• Another thing: Animals know when humans like these judges are railroading them.
  — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2018
• Soon, the media joined the chorus of disapproval, saying that such an act was not just offensive but downright racist, and these performers deserved to be railroaded off the stage in perpetuity.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024