How to Use railroad crossing in a Sentence
railroad crossing
noun-
On his way home, at about 1 a.m. on July 19, his car somehow came to a stop at a railroad crossing.
— Gillian Brockell, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2023 -
Steinke placed Rios into the cruiser of Platteville police officer Pablo Vasquez, who was the first to arrive on the scene and parked in the middle of a marked railroad crossing.
— Caroll Alvarado, CNN, 16 Sep. 2023 -
Chronister said the victims are believed to be a local Plant City family who were en route to a quinceañera at a home just across the railroad crossing.
— Ahmad Hemingway, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2023 -
According to Greenville News, Randolph was on his way home from a friend’s house when his car suspiciously stopped in the middle of a railroad crossing.
— Leah Campano, Seventeen, 6 Mar. 2023 -
One man is dead after he was allegedly hit by a train and killed Saturday evening at a railroad crossing in Georgia, police said.
— Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 25 June 2023 -
The incident was reported just after 10:35 a.m. at the railroad crossing near the intersection of Upland and Somis roads.
— Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024 -
Days later, a Norfolk Southern worker died after being struck at a railroad crossing near a Cleveland steel plant.
— Haley Bemiller, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2023 -
Without a connection to Dallas, historic homes burned and elderly residents died while emergency vehicles waited at the railroad crossing.
— Sonia Rao, Dallas News, 17 June 2023
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