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Example sentences for: freight

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But if government can't reroute the freight train in a better direction, it's hard to see how it can derail it.
The British call station wagons estate cars , but they refer to freight cars on a train as goods wagons (borrowed into French as plain wagon , also used in wagons-lits , the sleeping cars on old trains like the Orient Express).
"The only freight train that counts these days," says former Reaganaut and current cyberguru George Gilder, "is the Internet with Java."
GAO hired additional audit clerks and freight examiners, nearly tripling the size of the agency to nearly 15,000 by 1946.
In the version of that argument given in What It Means , he asserts that "most government interventions are ineffectual" because "modern society has the inertia of a ponderous freight train."