How to use locomotive in a sentence

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• The train was formed of a locomotive and a rake of six coaches.From the entry rake
• The power to haul the train is supplied by two huge locomotives.From the entry power
• The engineer had shut the locomotive up in the shed for twenty years.From the entry shut up
• There is a locomotive at either end of the train, one pulling and the other pushing.From the entry either
• The steam engine was the predecessor of diesel and electric locomotives.From the entry predecessor
• The early twentieth century was the heyday of the steam locomotive.From the entry heyday
• The conductor coupled the cars to the locomotive.From the entry car
• The locomotive got up a good head of steam.From the entry get up
• The later iterations of these locomotives had 56-inch drivers.From the entry driver
• Before the diesel locomotive, steam power was king.From the entry steam power
• The brakeman had to help the fireman shovel coal into the firebox as the engineer coaxed his locomotive up grade.From the entry fire box
• It takes about an hour to steam up the locomotive.From the entry steam up
• The electric locomotive was being hauled dead in the train by a diesel over the unpowered diversion route.From the entry dead in the train
• The locomotive can also be charged from shore power, making it essentially a bi-mode shunter.2025 February 19, “Network News: Hydrogen-powered Class 08 shunter unveiled”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 8, in a non-nautical context. From the entry shore power
• Diesel-electric locomotives cannot be operated in multiple unit with any locomotives having a non-electric transmission.2025 December, “The Why and the Wherefore”, in Railway Magazine, page 866. From the entry non-electric
• We should be encouraging and supporting expensive bi-mode freight locomotives, especially where capacity is constrained.2024 October 30, Paul Clifton, “How can freight be a major part of rail's future?”, in RAIL, number 1021, page 57. From the entry encourage
• Testers reported the locomotive as very surefooted and said it did not lose traction.2024 June 12, Pip Dunn, “Network News: Class 93 tri-mode completes first UK main line tests”, in RAIL, number 1011, page 6. From the entry surefooted
• The Edinburgh locomotive uncoupled, a brake test is performed and we're away.2023 February 8, Greg Morse, “Crossing the border... by Sleeper”, in RAIL, number 976, page 43. From the entry motionless
• GB Railfreight is building a new maintenance facility at Tonbridge yard, where it has many locomotives outbased.2023 November 29, “Network News: New GBRf shed”, in RAIL, number 997, page 25. From the entry outbased
• Around 25 years ago, it was used as a dumping ground for Toton locomotives destined for scrapyards.2021 June 16, “Network News: Boost for Stanton Gate revival”, in RAIL, number 933, page 14. From the entry dumping ground
• During those overhauls the locomotives were also rewired, updated, and had any corrosion dealt with.2019 October 23, Pip Dunn, “The next king of Scotland”, in Rail, page 50. From the entry rewire
• The locomotive pulled one single car, a dilapidated boxcar missing numerous planks in its walls.2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), page 83. From the entry boxcar
• The refurbished motor roars to life, practically an honorary steam locomotive when it's cold.2014 April 6, Sumpter Valley News, “720 Progress...”, in Sumpter Valley Railroad News. From the entry honorary steam locomotive
• Sanding should be performed in conjunction with fueling to avoid respotting locomotives.1990, American Railway Bridge, Building Association, Proceedings, page 109. From the entry respot
• The most robotized plant in the world is probably the GE locomotive plant in Erie, Pennsylvania.1986, Peter Drucker, The Frontiers of Management, published 2011, page 8. From the entry robotized
• Since these installations invariably were in tiny communities, and since they permitted locomotives literally to “jerk water”1979, The Train Dispatcher - Volumes 61-62, page 49. From the entry jerk water
• During the night, some of the locomotives began to tootle to one another, and then to move.1969 March 31, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., chapter 3, in Slaughterhouse-Five […] (A Seymour Lawrence Book), New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →OCLC. From the entry tootle
• Locomotive care is based on a system of preventive maintenance on an engine-hour basis.1964 January, “The maintenance of B.R. diesel-electric locomotives”, in Modern Railways, page 54. From the entry engine hour
• More trials of diesel locomotives with fitted mineral trains have been observed.1963 January, “Motive power miscellany”, in Modern Railways, page 64. From the entry dynamometer car
• The lead-acid batteries are mounted beneath the underframe in two parts, one either side of locomotive.1962 December, “The B.R. standard diesel-electric Type 1 locomotive”, in Modern Railways, pages 381–382. From the entry lead-acid
• Standardisation of locomotive design is an essential feature of an efficiently run modern railway.1961 March, “Talking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 133. From the entry standardisation
• The locomotive shed at Portadown is gradually becoming the principal Great Northern section steam motive power depot.1961 March, “The Irish scene”, in Trains Illustrated, page 138. From the entry locomotive shed
• At present the CC6Y2 is the world's three most powerful single-unit, non-articulated locomotive types.1961 February, “The 6,000 h.p. French electric locomotives for China”, in Trains Illustrated, page 91. From the entry non-articulated
• The unique chassis design is largely the secret of the lightness of the locomotive.1960 January, “The Swindon Type "4" diesel-hydraulic units”, in Trains Illustrated, page 39. From the entry lightness
• Last Christmas Eve the "Pines Express" arrived at Bath behind an ill-assorted combination of locomotives.1960 March, “Motive Power Miscellany: Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 184. From the entry ill-assorted
• Snowploughing in "wet" snow results in an appreciable lowering in locomotive performance.1960 January, M. Harbottle, “Maintaining Services after Heavy Snowfalls”, in Railway Magazine, page 8. From the entry snowploughing
• A decade later D&H began buying fast, high-horsepower locomotives in the interest of lucrative bridge-route traffic.1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 34. From the entry bridge route
• Six of the locomotives will be of the "electro-diesel" type, which is entirely new to Britain.1959 November, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes”, in Railway Magazine, page 805. From the entry electrodiesel
• When in multiple the control between the locomotives is through jumper cables, and air and vacuum hoses.1958 April, “British Railways First Main-Line Diesel-Hydraulic Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, pages 267, 277. From the entry jumper cable

Meaning of locomotive

1. noun The power unit of a train that pulls the coaches or wagons.
2. noun A traction engine.
3. noun A cheer characterized by a slow beginning and a progressive increase in speed.

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Questions about locomotive in a sentence

How do you use locomotive in a sentence?

Locomotive is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “The train was formed of a locomotive and a rake of six coaches.”

What is a short sentence with locomotive?

“Before the diesel locomotive, steam power was king.”

What does locomotive mean?

Locomotive means the power unit of a train that pulls the coaches or wagons.