Example sentences for: sidings

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

  • Stupey points out that there were so many sidings needing names that the railroaders were forced to be creative.

  • Wish fulfillment is seen in the midst of California's Death Valley, where sidings were given such coolsounding names as Klondike and Siberia . These exotic names also provided opportunities for playful statements like, “We're really sailing today.

  • 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.

  • Francis Stupey of Amarillo, Texas, a lifelong employee of the Santa Fe Railway, has collected stories which he shares in a slide-show about the railroad sidings.


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