How to Use boxcar in a Sentence

boxcar

noun
  • Big boxcar body the color of rough rust and vaulted up off of the axles.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The door to the boxcar was jammed partway open and snow was blowing in.
    — Justin Beal, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
  • The boxcar is in the center, on train tracks, and glass windows wrap the space.
    — Solvej Schou, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2026
  • The boxcar in front of him might have a phalange that's worn down, so much that the wheels are catching.
    — Jenna Ross, Star Tribune, 23 Mar. 2021
  • The night of the attack, police heard yelling and followed the noise to a boxcar.
    — Jayme Fraser, The Malheur Enterprise, idahostatesman, 6 May 2018
  • The remains of six people were found in a boxcar in South Texas.
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 11 May 2026
  • The object of the game is for players to fill a boxcar with tokens and get it to the other side of a board.
    — Sophia Nguyen, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Diaz drove Herrera to the job briefing site, a boxcar office on wheels.
    — Topher Sanders, ProPublica, 16 Dec. 2023
  • He was schooled in the Brooks Scanlon logging camp, in a railroad boxcar with holes cut in the side.
    — oregonlive, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Even after the boxcar was vandalized and burned, people kept coming.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Above also hangs a cardboard replica of a boxcar in which the Nazis would transport people to camps.
    — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The young Jacob finds himself on a train boxcar with a traveling circus troupe.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 4 June 2026
  • The street boomed in the late 19th century when a large wooden boxcar factory was based there.
    — Alyson Krueger, New York Times, 18 May 2018
  • His father worked in a cannery, among other jobs, and for a year the family lived in a nearby railroad boxcar.
    — New York Times, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Six individuals were found dead in a boxcar in South Texas.
    — Mateo Rosiles, USA Today, 11 May 2026
  • In the boxcar—huddled in the packing straw, trying to stay warm—Buster would continue his story.
    — Justin Beal, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
  • One family lived in a boxcar, and in some houses the rooms were separated by nothing but tarpaper.
    — Jill Abramson, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Six people were found dead in a cargo train boxcar near a Laredo, Texas, rail yard, officials said.
    — Kayla Hayempour, NBC news, 11 May 2026
  • As the train slowed to a stop, a boxcar derailed from the track, causing one tanker and seven additional boxcars to derail.
    — Elliot Hughes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2022
  • Blasts of reds from rhododendron bushes the size of railroad boxcars will stop you frequently, begging a closer look.
    — Michael J. Bailey, BostonGlobe.com, 9 May 2018
  • When a cryptocurrency transaction is made, another boxcar gets added to the train.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2021
  • In fact, the once-largest dune, the Hoosier Slide, was carried off in boxcars as early as 1916.
    — Jacqueline Kehoe, National Geographic, 15 Feb. 2019
  • Not long after, the train’s engineer decided to take a locomotive and boxcar to find more people.
    — Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2021
  • The whistle came first, a warning, followed by a distant roar, and then a bump, bump, bumping, as a hundred boxcars lurched past some distant crossing.
    — Southern Living, 15 Mar. 2017
  • The whistle came first, a warning, followed by a distant roar, and then a bump, bump, bumping, as a hundred boxcars lurched past some distant crossing.
    — Rick Bragg, Southern Living, 13 July 2017
  • Since the days of the Transcontinental Railroad, boxcars have shuttled all manner of goods.
    — Paul Ziobro, WSJ, 10 June 2018
  • The event, hosted at the Eighth Street brewery in Tempe, will feature beer can boxcars made by locals and brewers.
    — Tirion Morris, azcentral, 6 Feb. 2020
  • At one point, the explosions occurred in one-minute intervals and threw flaming splinters from the boxcar more than 10 miles away due to the wind.
    — Alana Minkler, The Arizona Republic, 29 July 2020
  • While these can be good for rolling and boxcar scars, ice pick scars may require a more intense peel, like TCA (trichloroacetic acid) cross therapy.
    — Aryelle Siclait, Women's Health, 26 May 2023
  • There are tales of Zemurray standing in the boxcars and tossing bananas to curious citizens along the way.
    — Sheri Castle, Southern Living, 4 Jan. 2024

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