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Example sentences for: locomotive

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the locomotive, a diesel-burning Class 2900 Santa Fe 4-8-4 that had been constructed in 1943 but had survived the decades most admirably and now gleamed like a Secret Service agent's lapel pin, was gaining speed swiftly, its one hundred and five tons departing another whistle-stop in another anonymous town whose inhabitants clustered where the rails seemed to converge, their fluttering hands and smiling faces congealed into a tuberous mirage that already was beginning to deliquesce, its bipedal spores gamboling away from the station where, only moments before, the candidates had stood to receive the traditional accolade from the traditional close-packed crowd.
Pursuant to section 801(a)(2)(A) of title 5, United States Code, this is our report on a major rule promulgated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), entitled "Emission Standards for Locomotives and Locomotive Engines" (RIN: 2060-AD33).
One story is that locomotive Number 1090 was wrecked nearby.
The information being collected will allow EPA to certify locomotives and locomotive engines will be in compliance with the applicable emission standards.
Thus, Roadrunner . Thus, the string of successes on Late Night With David Letterman involving the dimwitted demolition of culturally evocative objects--Running Stuff Over With a Steam Roller, Dropping Stuff off a Five-Story Tower, Crushing Stuff in a Hydraulic Press, Dropping a 1,000-Pound Weight Onto Stuff, Crashing Into Stuff With a Locomotive.