How to Use sleeping car in a Sentence

sleeping car

noun
  • That wise rider leaned out of a sleeping car and handed over some cash.
    — Caille Millner, SFChronicle.com, 28 June 2018
  • Fares for sleeping cars include meals and use of first-class lounges in some big cities' stations.
    — Paul Davenport, chicagotribune.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • The detective hid behind the sleeping car as the grownups climbed the stairs.
    — Simon Rich, The New Yorker, 8 July 2021
  • Such is the lofty ambition on which the principle of the sleeping car is based.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 4 May 2020
  • The journalists were put in sleeping cars on the train, four bunks to a compartment.
    — Nick Wadhams, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2018
  • That said, the prospect of spending the night in a sleeping car understandably raises a number of questions.
    — Erika Mailman, Washington Post, 23 June 2022
  • The train was expected to continue north, with some of the sleeping car passengers being transferred to a different train.
    — CBS News, 7 Jan. 2018
  • The discount does not apply to non-Acela business class tickets, first class or sleeping car accommodations.
    — Curtis Tate, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Some will become sleeping cars, while others will be transformed into dining cars; still others will be able to carry outdoor recreation gear, like skis and bicycles.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The harsh working conditions aboard Pullman’s sleeping cars helped spur the birth of the African American labor movement.
    — USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2020
  • On the Helsinki-Kolari route, there are occasionally older sleeping cars with three-bed compartments.
    — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024
  • The traditional dining service is included with Amtrak’s sleeping car service, but is available for all passengers.
    — Wayne Rash, Forbes, 8 June 2021
  • The chef, a waiter and another food service worker had been furloughed recently, leaving only the cafe attendant to prepare and serve food to sleeping car passengers in the dining car.
    — ExpressNews.com, 11 Oct. 2020
  • But the most dramatic of these protests came from Pullman sleeping car company workers, all black men, who endured brutal and demeaning working conditions for very little pay.
    — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2019
  • The collection also includes a sleeping car, a freight car used by NASA that carried helium and a passenger luxury car.
    — Mayra Cruz, Houston Chronicle, 7 June 2019
  • The Belmond Royal Scotsman took its inaugural journey in 1985 with three dining carriages and modest sleeping cars.
    — Susmita Baral, Travel + Leisure, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Featuring a bedroom, lounge and private dining area, bathroom, library and tea room, JR was given carte blanche on the redesign of the 23-meter (75-foot) long former sleeping car.
    — Tom Page, CNN Money, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Pullman built luxury passenger cars for trains during the heyday of train travel, and was also once the nation's largest employer of African Americans, who worked as sleeping car porters on Pullman trains.
    — Curtis Tate, USA TODAY, 9 June 2020
  • Today sleeping cars are a rarity, knocked out by budget airlines and their comparatively cheap fares, though a few European rail operators are moving to revive sleeper trains because of a recent increase in demand.
    — New York Times, 18 Dec. 2019
  • By the time Amtrak was created in 1970 to take over operation of the nation's remaining long-distance passenger trains, few sleeping car attendants had been hired in many years as train travel declined.
    — Curtis Tate, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2020
  • Even before the Haymarket incident, George Pullman, the inventor of the railroad sleeping car, wanted to insulate his workers from radicals like Spies.
    — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 27 Sep. 2019
  • In the late 19th century, companies like Pullman, a manufacturer of sleeping cars for trains, established such towns adjacent to their factories, even providing housing and collecting rent.
    — Suresh Naidu, Eric Posner, Vox, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Since then, interior designers have been hard at work refreshing the 15 hunter-green carriages, which include a piano bar car, two restaurant cars, an open-air observation car and eight sleeping cars, per Robb Report’s Rachel Cormack.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 July 2023
  • The locomotive’s luxe, 592-square-foot president suite has a private entrance and includes a living room, office, bathroom and secondary sleeping car, per Travel + Leisure’s Dobrina Zhekova.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2022

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