Boxcars

Word BOXCARS
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Definitions and meanings of "Boxcars"

What do we mean by boxcars?

An enclosed railroad freight car, especially one with a sliding door.

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The word "boxcars" in example sentences

They came here and lived in boxcars, raised their families here and became our early residents. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Somebody who actually rode in boxcars to a German concentration camp? ❋ Unknown (2005)

By contrast, the Galactica has to drag along a ragtag fugitive fleet where most of the people live in boxcars. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"boxcars" -- razor knives -- to inflict damage: an Asian girl, it was said, was cut up bad, and a non-skin nearly lost an eye. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The last time they did it, they cut away early to let Bill "boxcars" Bennett spin the debate before it was even finished and displayed banners calling it the "Democrat" party debate. ❋ Unknown (2007)

D.G.D.: Most of the people in the Fleet might live in boxcars, but there's still plenty of decadent luxury for the Galactica characters who count. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Appearing in April, "American Letters: 1927-1947" Polity, 252 pages, $25 , a collection of the Pollock family correspondence, bears witness to the hardscrabble reality of the artist's upbringing amid boxcars and barren homesteads—the incubator of his creative vision. ❋ Jonathan Lopez (2011)

Packets are how data (in this case voice data) is bundled up and sent over the Internet (maybe analogous to shipping a load of coal somewhere in many boxcars which make up a single train delivery .... a sentence). ❋ Unknown (2009)

I worked a ta community theare that was a repurposed trainstation, the dressing rooms were repurposed passenger cars and the prop and costume closets were repurposed boxcars. ❋ Unknown (2009)

General Labor — unloading boxcars, surveyors assistant, jobs you can get through Manpower, etc. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The gates going up and down like gigantic windshield wipers to let the existent boxcars pass. ❋ Jerry Ratch (2011)

Richard Luken/Iola Register via Associated Press SMOKE SIGNALS: Flames and smoke rose from burning boxcars containing ethylene after a Union Pacific train derailed south of Moran, Kan., Monday. ❋ Unknown (2011)

If your trip to the moon takes 20 hours, if San Francisco to New Delhi takes 16, don't think you have gone farther than the kid who's walked and stolen rides and bled and hidden in boxcars for 4 days to get from Albuquerque to Rapid City. ❋ Nancy Chuda (2011)

Often there are wings with shapes that resemble boxcars. ❋ Nancy Keates (2011)

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