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How to use caboose in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Caboose means a small galley or cookhouse on the deck of a small vessel. Example: “The caboose, long decrepit, rested on a forgotten layup just north of the dry riverbed.”

Examples of caboose by meaning

nounA small sand-filled container used as an oven on board ship.

  • The kitchens were kept separate because cooking was done in a caboose, a wooden box filled with sand and heated by a wood fire.2002, Don Philpott, Cayman Islands

nounThe buttocks.

  • That's a pretty big caboose for a baby.2001 March 11, John Frink and Don Payne, Bye, Bye, Nerdie (The Simpsons), spoken by Homer Simpson

nounA youngest child who is born after a long gap in time.

  • Jimmy was seven and had just finished first grade, so that made Nancy our caboose baby — our bonus child — our swan song.1987, Harriet Wallace Rose, Something's Wrong with My Child!
  • "Caboose" children, the late-born last offspring in the family, didn't suffer from this as much.1987, Growing Child Research Review - Volumes 5-7
  • After looking back on her own experience, she thought of some ways parents could help ease the transition for their caboose kid.2007, Beth K. Vogt, Baby Changes Everything, page 145

More sentences with caboose

  • The caboose, long decrepit, rested on a forgotten layup just north of the dry riverbed.From the entry layup
  • Can you imagine climbing behind that caboose and hanging on to those milk-bags?2010, Phil Torcivia, Nice Meeting You, page 183. From the entry motorboating
  • Crewmembers left their winter clothes in the waycar, another name for the caboose, hitched 56 cars behind the engine.2013, Dena Bisnette, Joe Gilliam, Newton, Arcadia Publishing, page 38. From the entry waycar
  • It has been said that some feminists and their male subordinationist allies perceive the gay male movement as the caboose of the feminist train.1977 August 20, Wayne Dynes, “The New Victorianism”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 7, page 5. From the entry subordinationist
  • It is generally called a caboose.1930, Ackerman V. Michigan Central Railroad Co. Gentinne V. Same, 249 MICH 693 (1930), page 70. From the entry waycar

Meaning of caboose

  1. noun A small galley or cookhouse on the deck of a small vessel.
  2. noun A small sand-filled container used as an oven on board ship.
  3. noun The last car on a freight train, consisting of cooking and sleeping facilities for the crew; a guard’s van.

Full definition of caboose

Questions about caboose in a sentence

How do you use caboose in a sentence?
Caboose is used as a noun. For example: “The caboose, long decrepit, rested on a forgotten layup just north of the dry riverbed.”
What is a short sentence with caboose?
“It is generally called a caboose.”
What does caboose mean?
Caboose means a small galley or cookhouse on the deck of a small vessel.

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