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Examples of “train” in a Sentence

15 example sentences showing how to use train, grouped by meaning.

noun A line of connected railway carriages pulled by an engine, used to carry passengers or freight.

  • The freight train rumbled slowly past the station, carrying dozens of heavy containers.
  • We caught the early train to London.
  • The train was delayed by twenty minutes.

noun A long, flowing part of a garment, especially a wedding dress, that trails along the ground.

  • Two bridesmaids carefully lifted the train of the dress as she walked down the aisle.
  • The queen's robe had a heavy velvet train that swept across the floor.
  • Her wedding dress had a train several meters long.

noun A connected series of events, thoughts, or vehicles.

  • A train of camels crossed the desert, led by an old guide.
  • One bad decision set off a train of events that nobody had planned.
  • He lost his train of thought halfway through the speech.

verb To teach someone a skill through instruction and practice.

  • The company will train all its new staff to use the booking system.
  • She trains new recruits at the fire academy.
  • He trained for months before running the marathon.

verb To feed data into a computer program so it learns to perform a task.

  • Engineers train the program on thousands of recorded phone calls so it can recognize speech.
  • You can train a spam filter by marking unwanted messages as junk.
  • The model was trained on millions of images.