How do you use the word "train" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "train": When I left the train station, I saw a man. Don't open before the train stops.

Train Meaning

/ˈtɹeɪn/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounElongated or trailing portion.

nounElongated or trailing portion., The elongated back portion of a dress or skirt (or an ornamental piece of material added to similar effect), which drags along the ground.

Sentence Examples

When I left the train station, I saw a man.

Don't open before the train stops.

The train went slower and slower until it stopped altogether.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

check string prepare

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The coach will ____ the young athletes every day before the big competition.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

I usually take the ____ to the city center because it is much faster and more convenient than driving a car today.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ-der.? Latin trahere Vulgar Latin *tragīnāre Old French traïnerder. Old French trainder. Middle English trayne English train From Middle English trayne (“train”), from Old French train (“a delay, a drawing out”), from traïner (“to pull out, to draw”), from Vulgar Latin *traginō, from *tragō, from Latin trahō (“to pull, to draw”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tregʰ- (“to pull, draw, drag”). The verb was derived from the noun in Middle English. For the meaning to teach compare typologically Russian ната́скивать (natáskivatʹ) (akin to тащи́ть (taščítʹ)).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"They called each other by their Christian name, were always arm in arm when they walked, pinned up each other's train for the dance, and were not to be divided in the set [...]." — 1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:

"He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother's heels, equipped in a pair of his father's cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a lady does her train in bad weather." — 1819, Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, Rip Van Winkle:

"Lace sleeves, a demure neckline, a full skirt and a relatively modest train." — 2011 April 20, Imogen Fox, The Guardian:

"[E]mancipation is put into such a train that in a few years there will be no slaves Northward of Maryland." — 1785, Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Richard Price:

"A party was sent to search, and there they found all the powder ready prepared, and, moreover, a man with a lantern, one Guy Fawkes, who had undertaken to be the one to set fire to the train of gunpowder, hoping to escape before the explosion." — 1873, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Aunt Charlotte's Stories of English History for the little ones:

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