How to Use freight train in a Sentence

freight train

noun
  • Here comes one, a freight train.
    — Brian Domitrovic, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025
  • In short, the wheels are not falling off the freight train.
    — Dryden Pence, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • At his heart, though, the 38-year-old freight train is still a kid.
    — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Doing that is like trying to stop a freight train.
    — Annie Heilbrunn, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Because this is coming like a freight train.
    — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 20 Mar. 2026
  • That’s where a freight train of record-warm water is chugging along.
    — Ben Noll, Washington Post, 20 May 2026
  • As the truck crossed an unmarked railroad track, a freight train tore it in half.
    — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 30 Nov. 2024
  • The couple must have decided to wait for the freight train to pass.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Sarah Jones was struck and killed by a freight train on 2014.
    — Sean Neumann, People.com, 17 Mar. 2025
  • The train is believed to be a freight train, the commission said.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Just as the freight train passed, the Brightline came on the other track.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The person crossed the tracks and was hit by a westbound freight train, police said.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 30 Nov. 2025
  • Some fishermen have compared the sound of a school to a passing freight train.
    — Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2025
  • Allen and the Buffalo offense were a freight train that couldn’t be stopped.
    — Colton Pouncy, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Every August, the back-to-school season used to hit me like a freight train.
    — Alena Conley, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2025
  • For him, the reality of another crash like this hits him like a freight train.
    — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 17 Feb. 2025
  • The freight train cars were tipped and leaning and appeared to be only partially on the tracks.
    — Darius Johnson, CBS News, 25 June 2026
  • The scene begins when the group’s car stalls on a set of train tracks while a giant freight train is speeding straight towards them.
    — Keith Langston, People.com, 18 May 2025
  • The rest of the $50 million is planned for improvements at freight train crossings.
    — Summer Ballentine, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The impact, which threw the auto 200 feet, caused the rail cars to sway and hit a northbound freight train.
    — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The sun glinted off the Anacostia River as a freight train rolled by.
    — Justin Wm. Moyer, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2023
  • But Joel handles it for her, barreling into Seth from the side like a freight train.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • This could be a freight train coming for everybody in Washington right now.
    — ABC News, 7 Dec. 2025
  • The world champs may be coming on like a freight train, but the most dangerous thing the Rangers could have done was react.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Wagner, especially, is a freight train on the move.
    — Fred Katz, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • That amount, if placed in hopper cars, would fill a freight train long enough to circle the earth — and that's just from the last 44 years.
    — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Sales can dip, trends shift and what feels like an unstoppable freight train of momentum can run out of fuel in an instant.
    — Paul Fitzgerald, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The comfort comes in transition, where Miller is an absolute freight train.
    — Sabreena Merchant, New York Times, 7 July 2025
  • An Omaha freight train was stalled in a drift west of Jordan Sunday night.
    — Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Since then, the basketball program has grown from a flailing handcar to the little engine that could to a freight train.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 4 Apr. 2026

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