How to Use locomotive in a Sentence

locomotive

1 of 2 adjective

• But a local train got in the way and blocked their view as the famous locomotive chugged by.
  — NBC News, 30 Sep. 2020
• And visitors can board a steam locomotive for a night-time ride around the park.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2021
• The three crew members climbed on top of the locomotive, where they were forced to remain as the floodwaters rose.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 July 2021
• The scenic railroad offers a five-mile trip around the mountain on a 1940s locomotive.
  — AccessAtlanta, 17 June 2022
• An engineer is not allowed to get out of the locomotive, even if it’s stopped.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 4 Mar. 2023
• The epic sweep of the Yosemite wilderness, the High Sierra on horseback, a huffing locomotive pulling into a gold rush town.
  — Sunset Magazine, 9 Aug. 2022
• Eight people were killed and more than 200 were injured when the locomotive and four of the train’s seven passenger cars jumped the tracks.
  — Time, 26 Sep. 2021
• A few years later, the locomotive and 1926 caboose were added.
  — Sam Boyer, cleveland, 16 Oct. 2020
• The railways ministry said the locomotive driver had seen a group of people on the tracks and tried to stop but ended up hitting them.
  — New York Times, 8 May 2020
• The locomotive and coal car that used to steam by the depot is on public display in a nearby Sportsman's Park.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 20 Mar. 2023
• The largest divestiture this year is an $11 billion deal to sell its locomotive unit.
  — Alexander Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 25 June 2018
• Time out for a backward glance over 100 years of locomotive building.
  — Wayne Whittaker, Popular Mechanics, 26 Aug. 2021
• In his 25 years as a locomotive engineer, Eddie Hall saw his trains grow longer and longer.
  — Lee Powell, Washington Post, 25 May 2023
• Adding to the fun is the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad, which makes its home here, the high whistle of the steam locomotive calling you to the possibility of a ride.
  — Tracey Minkin, Southern Living, 9 Mar. 2021
• Versions of the engine were used in locomotive devices like early cars and trains.
  — Addison Nugent, Popular Mechanics, 29 Nov. 2020
• The train's horn blared before the locomotive collided with the trailer, sending debris on both sides of the crossing.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2021
• How much locomotive force do their beaks provide compared to their legs?
  — Grrlscientist, Forbes, 18 May 2022
• Then the whistle from what sounds like a steam locomotive blows, and everyone in the restaurant looks up to see a train carting a box of food to someone’s table.
  — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 19 Jan. 2024
• The Smokey Mary, a popular steam locomotive, brought people to a train station and dock at Port Pontchartrain.
  — Blake Pontchartrain, NOLA.com, 24 Aug. 2020
• But the park plans to start using a steam locomotive along select segments of the new track Wednesday, Disney confirmed.
  — Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 8 Dec. 2021
• Many attempts at locomotive steam plowing have heretofore proved failures, from the simple fact that the hold of the traction engine on the ground was not equal to the resistance of the plows.
  — Dan Schlenoff, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2020
• The pulsing headlight of a vintage 4-8-8-4 steam locomotive had appeared on the horizon.
  — New York Times, 2 May 2022
• But that brain of his -- the beautiful machine that powered him was a speeding locomotive.
  — oregonlive, 11 June 2020
• Sure, Ye is rapping in fuller, more locomotive sentences again, but everything that manages to jump out of the mix does so on whiffed shock value.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2024
• Unions also fought off proposals to cut locomotive crews down from two people to one.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 17 Sep. 2022
• Putting public safety at risk In his 25 years as a locomotive engineer, Eddie Hall saw his trains grow longer and longer.
  — Andrea Salcedo, Luz Lazo and Lee Powell, Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2023
• Dead Reckoning glances backwards to the 1996 movie that started it all, which also happened to end with a blast of locomotive action.
  — Vulture, 14 July 2023
• Mayer and Weir have largely split lead vocals this summer, but Weir is steering the locomotive tonight.
  — Jeff Weiss, Spin, 21 Aug. 2023
• More importantly, the pre-locomotive era tied armies to short supply lines.
  — Michael Peck, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
• Thinking of the Dearman engine purely as a source of locomotive power missed its unique selling point.
  — Nicola Twilley, Wired, 1 Apr. 2020

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locomotive

2 of 2 noun

• Ja Morant is the locomotive who will pull the Grizzlies back to near the top of the West.
  — Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic, 17 Oct. 2022
• The rumble of the locomotive was a welcome change from the sound of sirens back in Dnipro.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2022
• In 1984, the locomotive was removed from the park and placed in storage.
  — Blake Pontchartrain, NOLA.com, 12 Oct. 2020
• The truck became lodged against the front of the train and was swept about 2,400 feet further down the tracks before the locomotive came to a halt.
  — Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 26 May 2023
• The boiler of the new locomotive was filled with water and she was coaled up.
  — Wayne Whittaker, Popular Mechanics, 26 Aug. 2021
• There were rows of derelict locomotives parked to one side.
  — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 29 Apr. 2023
• Along the way, rail fans from all over await the locomotive's arrival.
  — Neal Earley, Arkansas Online, 22 Aug. 2021
• This means a locomotive would then have to move the railcars back so that workers could try again in the same spot.
  — Esther Fung, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2022
• The locomotive is a needle sewing stitches across the motley quilt that is the USA.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2020
• The locomotive dubbed the Walter E. Disney will be used for the testing.
  — Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 8 Dec. 2021
• In all, the district soon will have a total of 11 locomotives and 39 cars.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 2023
• It’s the kind of device that a freight locomotive would use to hook up with a tanker of molten sulfur or boxcar of beer.
  — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 14 Oct. 2021
• Bowman claimed that any part of the cement roof could hold up a locomotive.
  — Celia Storey, Arkansas Online, 24 May 2021
• In one hand, Elizabeth carried a large leather clutch in the shape of a steam locomotive.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
• The climb was steep and the train needed a push from an extra locomotive, which coupled onto the rear.
  — Dan Schwartz, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2023
• The train applied its emergency brakes, which caused some rail cars on the train to detach from the locomotive.
  — Adam Sabes, Fox News, 20 Feb. 2022
• According to the Alaska Railroad, the third and final locomotive is still on the scene, but is not in the way of train traffic.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 21 Jan. 2023
• If the locomotive is not crowded, simply choose a new seat.
  — Thomas P. Farley, chicagotribune.com, 30 Aug. 2021
• Stroll around the 7-acre lake, have a picnic on the grass, play tennis or volleyball, or check out the old steam locomotive parked out front.
  — Katie Toussaint, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• Traffic on neighboring roads slowed to a crawl as motorists craned their necks for a view of the locomotive.
  — New York Times, 2 May 2022
• After the engineer left, a small fire broke out in the lead locomotive which had been spewing oil all day.
  — Ian Austen, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2023
• It’s not a goat that hangs out in your front yard, but rather railroad jargon for a small locomotive that changes cars between trains.
  — USA Today, 24 June 2021
• When football tosses coal your way, might as well stoke the locomotive.
  — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Dec. 2021
• Imagine, as a kid, stumbling upon the locomotive that is Live at Leeds.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2024
• Adding to the fun is the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad, which makes its home here, the high whistle of the steam locomotive calling you to the possibility of a ride.
  — Tracey Minkin, Southern Living, 12 July 2023
• These narrow-gauge lines, with small locomotives and rail cars, were similar to those seen at a theme park.
  — Nick Yetto, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2023
• The tunnel was used by steam locomotives and produced plenty of foul air.
  — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 6 Jan. 2024
• Disney feels that the rights its has secured will still act as a locomotive for other content.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 14 June 2022
• The locomotive is now out of service as volunteers work to rebuild it.
  — Blake Pontchartrain, NOLA.com, 12 Oct. 2020
• The locomotive itself was a detailed miniature a full-size human could ride atop.
  — Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024

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