Example sentences for: rails

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

  • By the time he made that picture, though, he had already taken in works by more venturesome Pictorialists that showed the modern city as itself and had produced Railroad Sidings, New York (1914): a couple of willful diagonals of boxcars surmounted by a tangle of rails and a head of steam that has nothing to do with mist.

  • The most elaborate allow an operator to ride the machine, which holds the rolls of cloth, so that it can feed the cloth onto the table at a speed that just matches the speed of the machine as it moves along rails fixed to the table.

  • Houellebecq rails at materialism--both consumerist and sexual.

  • Even as the Wall Street Journal editorial page rails against the progressive income tax's bite on high-income types, the Journal 's front offers a more grounded look at big earners these days, noting a whiney new development among many professionals with annual incomes of nearly $200,000: envy of those who, thanks to booming job and stock markets, make even more.

  • 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.


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