How to Use caboose in a Sentence

caboose

noun
  • Take your kids to the caboose from 10 a.m. to noon for free crafts.
    cleveland, 20 Nov. 2022
  • His moving on kind of gave me a kick in the caboose to have courage.
    Tommy McArdle, People.com, 10 Apr. 2025
  • His moving on kind of gave me a kick in the caboose to have courage.
    Tommy McArdle, People.com, 10 Apr. 2025
  • But let’s face it, the real goose in the caboose that led the way, the North Star, was Spinal Tap.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Snooze in a caboose, a yacht, a wigwam or a swanky tent.
    Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 12 May 2021
  • At the end, the caboose, which signifies the end, it’s when William is right there.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 17 May 2022
  • For the crime of being a snooze, Spiral is bringing up the caboose for the Saw train.
    Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 1 June 2024
  • Those who want to stay overnight can sleep in the railway’s bunkhouse or train caboose for $60 a night.
    Jay Jones, latimes.com, 3 July 2019
  • Specialty crooks went straight to the caboose of out-of-town trains.
    Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • Her new 1,000-square-foot home came with two bedrooms and a sort of caboose that makes a third.
    Sarah Medford, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Trump asked for Democrats to jump on the caboose after the tax train has already left the station.
    Heidi M Przybyla, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2017
  • Although the scenery doesn’t change, train lovers are still wowed at the prospect of spending the night in a parked caboose on a farm in the Smoky Mountains.
    Larry Bleiberg, USA TODAY, 25 May 2018
  • The caboose fits four guests, with one bed in the cupola, and is perfect for kids obsessed with trains.
    Meg St-Esprit, Good Housekeeping, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The property includes a red caboose where guests can spend the night.
    Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Two of the cabooses have cupolas, which offer up-in-the-trees vistas of the forest.
    Brian E. Clark, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2017
  • In Wilton, a caboose serves as a resting spot and source of information on the small town that bills itself as the heart of the trail.
    Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 June 2018
  • Book one of their cabins or train cabooses for an overnight stay.
    Jennifer Broome, The Denver Post, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Book one of their cabins or train cabooses for an overnight stay.
    Jennifer Broome, The Denver Post, 20 Jan. 2025
  • The engine of the moving train and the caboose of the stationary train rolled down the embankment and onto Blair Road.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2018
  • The depot is the former train station in town along with its red caboose on Garfield Avenue.
    cleveland, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The caboose was donated to the school by the Ferrone family.
    Linda Gandee, cleveland, 1 June 2020
  • The cabooses each sleep three to four people, while the cabins come with a bed and sleeper sofa.
    Troy Smith, Axios, 18 July 2024
  • First, the restaurant is an old train caboose, with no indoor seating.
    Rebecca Flint Marx, New York Times, 26 May 2017
  • More than a decade ago, Zorro Ranch placed a vintage caboose on the trust land near a petroglyph site.
    Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Chris Evans plays a man dead-set on getting to the front of the train to figure out what's happening to the poor kids getting kidnapped from the caboose.
    Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Dating back to 1916, the charming CSX caboose sleeps four in two bedrooms and even has its own ticket booth.
    Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • That was merely the caboose for what transpired in the minutes before.
    Chris Branch, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The venue is set, rather perfectly, in a building made of shipping containers and an old caboose.
    Mackensy Lunsford, Nashville Tennessean, 30 Dec. 2025
  • His moving on kind of gave me a kick in the caboose to have courage.
    Lindsay Kimble, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The restaurant operates out of a caboose parked on the gravel lot.
    Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025

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