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Example sentences for: railroads

How can you use “railroads” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Waste occurs because of coordination failures (In the early days of railroads each line had a different gauge).
Railroads preceded settlers into many parts of the United States, and every few miles a siding had to be built so that trains could pull off the track and wait for others to pass.
1990s gangsta rap is rhythmically simple and harmonically negligible, 1890s ballads are melodically simple and harmonically negligible, but the effect is the same: Even as the subject matter in each case proclaims its modernity (railroads and telephone on the one hand, guns and crack on the other), in both cases, the music underneath belies it.
One of the best examples was the completion of America's transcontinental railroads in the nineteenth century.
The changes now going on have their analog in the last century, when technological innovations of the day like railroads, telegraph, and steam power—developed for purposes far afield of retail, apparel, or textiles—helped transform the mass distri-bution of goods and information.