Example sentences for: rails

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

  • Not even the most depressed engineer can steer a locomotive off the rails.

  • Also in Newsweek , Nation Editor Victor Navasky rails against Elia Kazan's Oscar for Lifetime Achievement.

  • A Pecksniffian TV evangelist might conceivably-- heaven forbid--revile sin and sinners while wallowing in the conduct that he rails against.

  • There are some smart people--most notably Harvard's Jeffrey Sachs--who believe that, but my view is that Asian economies had gone seriously off the rails well before last summer, and that some kind of unpleasant comeuppance was inevitable.

  • However, the impact was minimal because of its remoteness: An Amtrak train was knocked off its rails, and about 250,000 homes lost power, though almost all was restored by the afternoon, the LAT reports.


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