How to Use railroad in a Sentence

railroad

1 of 2 noun
  • There may be changes to your railroad trip.
    — Matt Nighswander, NBC news, 18 June 2026
  • There’s a sharp turn and railroad tracks.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Oct. 2025
  • First comes the railroad; then, a camp.
    — Literary Hub, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The railroad has both indoor and open-air cars.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 16 June 2026
  • Other cities sent in help on railroad cars.
    — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Video from the scene shows the car ended up on railroad tracks.
    — Elyssa Kaufman, CBS News, 27 Dec. 2025
  • The sky was gray and the grass along the railroad track was overgrown.
    — Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The four men are framed by brushstrokes that evoke railroad tracks.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 25 June 2026
  • The four men are framed by brushstrokes that evoke railroad tracks.
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2026
  • Some railroads went out of business.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 10 June 2026
  • The railroad tracks were not damaged.
    — Brandon Downs, CBS News, 19 Jan. 2026
  • The fires burned most of Nob Hill where the railroad barons lived.
    — Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 17 Apr. 2026
  • In Anaheim, a tree fell across some railroad tracks.
    — City News Service, Daily News, 8 Mar. 2026
  • For years the right-of-way had been leased out by the railroad companies.
    — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2023
  • The railroad spike that went through Barakat's windshield.
    — Paul Burton, CBS News, 12 May 2026
  • That is when a man was seen fleeing on foot towards an area with railroad tracks.
    — Ana Maria Soler, CBS News, 27 May 2026
  • The wood was sent down the 54-mile Sanger flume to get to a railroad.
    — Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 20 Sep. 2025
  • This wasn’t just a union of railroads, however.
    — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 24 Mar. 2026
  • There are a dozen new tents on a stretch of grass and six or seven along the nearby railroad tracks.
    — Andy Sheehan, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • His father worked for the railroad and his mother was a seamstress.
    — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 30 May 2026
  • Kids will love the small railroad display tucked into the second floor.
    — Karthika Gupta, Travel + Leisure, 23 Aug. 2025
  • Burley won a grant for safety measures along its railroad line.
    — Mark Dee, Idaho Statesman, 18 Jan. 2026
  • But inside this building, the main street and the railroad are even smaller.
    — John Lauritsen, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The railroads arms, lights and audio bells were working at the time of the crash, police say.
    — Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Jordan, who spent a decade in prison, ended up taking his own life on the railroad tracks.
    — Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2026
  • And some 100 cars lined up for free gas near the town's former railroad station.
    — Reis Thebault, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Commuter railroads and subway lines in many places have also failed to become faster.
    — David Leonhardt, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Dirt and debris have fallen near the tracks, but the railroad is undamaged.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 May 2023
  • But its physical space, just down the street from the railroad museum, is small.
    — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 31 May 2026
  • How such a little town, since railroad days a hundred years ago or more, unravels like the mind.
    — David Searcy, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025

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
  • Make a point of inviting feedback to ensure no one feels railroaded.
    — Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Most of the risks of railroading fall on pedestrians and motorists.
    — Ian Savage, The Conversation, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Those changes have been a boon to railroad investors and executives.
    — Niraj Chokshi, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Well, his wife is saying that he was railroaded by Mueller and Comey's bestfriend.
    — Fox News, 5 May 2018
  • To railroad companies around the world, that wasn’t acceptable.
    — Michael Downing, Smithsonian, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Such are characters that villains tie to railroad tracks in melodramas.
    — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2021
  • The gist of the argument is that their legal rights have been railroaded by management and want a court to step in.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • After all, this is the story of a crooked Southern sheriff railroading a white man.
    — New York Times, 3 May 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Courts have consistently found that right-of-way uses should further railroad purposes, Wu wrote.
    — Bettina Boxall, latimes.com, 21 June 2019
  • This is a story about a Black man railroaded and ultimately killed by white citizens and law enforcement.
    — Chris Vognar, Chron, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Now the Supreme Court must decide if McCoy was railroaded and deserves a new trial.
    — Editors, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 Democrats argued that Franken had been railroaded and that the complaints should have been fully investigated.
    — Li Zhou, Vox, 30 May 2018
  • But that block has been eliminated to avoid impacts to railroad operations along Harbor Drive.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2023
  • So half of the country's going to believe, or 40% of the country believes that McCabe was railroaded.
    — NBC News, 18 Mar. 2018
  • To the activists, the case spotlights dirty cops who victimize young black men and prosecutors who railroad them into criminal convictions.
    — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 26 July 2019
  • To have railroaded that through and not listened to the other three women and let his colleagues absolutely tear her apart was absolutely horrible.
    — Dylan Scott, Vox, 21 Sep. 2018
  • Rice was not railroaded by an unfair system but rather is the product of its benefit to those with means to have the ability to fully and adequately defend themselves.
    — Kansas City Star, 16 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Best of all, there’s a passionate indictment of a provincial mindset and backward state legal system that railroaded Steven Avery.
    — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2018

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