Example sentences for: wagons

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

  • With horses, wagons carry freight and have four wheels; carts may carry anything but have two wheels.

  • One of the most impressive sights on your trip will be the rivalry of the Canadian Pacific and Canadian National railways in action: endless trains of freight wagons, pulled and pushed often by two engines at either end for the tougher stretches, snake through the canyons on opposite banks of the river.

  • 50,000 ammunition wagons

  • The British call station wagons estate cars , but they refer to freight cars on a train as goods wagons (borrowed into French as plain wagon , also used in wagons-lits , the sleeping cars on old trains like the Orient Express).

  • Official decrees standardized weights and measures and even the axle dimensions of all wagons (the latter edict kept transport in the same ruts for countless years).


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