Example sentences for: rails

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

  • ) rails against Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom's anti-affirmative-action America in Black and White as "the worst history book of the year."

  • A WSJ front-page feature reports on a virtually unnoticed obstacle to the flourishing of free trade under NAFTA: There aren't enough bridges, rails and docks to handle all the additional movement of goods the treaty sanctions.

  • 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.

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

  • Unlike traveling peddlers of the past, who carried everything with them, these salesmen could ride the rails into town with no more than a trunk of samples and catalogs.


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