monorail

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Recent Examples of monorail The Black Lava Rock Lounge on the fourth floor, for example, faces the monorail and has more hanging gardens as well as a mural with an erupting volcano; the Lagoon Reef Terrace features undulating blue walls depicting a giant coral reef. Jacqui Gifford, Travel + Leisure, 21 July 2025 Other signature features include football fields built above traffic arteries and skybridges and monorails linking dense clusters of towers—an architectural response to the city's spatial constraints. Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 July 2025 At the time, the county was pursuing a $1.3 billion monorail line to South Beach under a plan championed by the prior mayor, Carlos Gimenez. Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 3 June 2025 The monorail was not in operation at the time. Bailey Schulz, USA Today, 9 July 2020 See All Example Sentences for monorail
Recent Examples of Synonyms for monorail
Noun
  • Union Pacific is calling this merger the nation’s first truly transcontinental railroad, although for practical purposes, the first complete rail connection was completed 156 years ago.
    Jeremy Lott, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The railroad operates 42 locomotives throughout California, and plans to market the trains to other companies, which collectively run another 260 throughout the state.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • At least 15 people have been killed and 18 were injured after a funicular railway in Lisbon, Portugal, derailed on Wednesday.
    Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Maintenance for the railway has been outsourced to an external contractor since 2011 and has been handled by MAIN - Maintenance Engineering since 2022.
    Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • While both tracks of the rail line have since reopened, cleanup at the site will likely last another couple weeks, officials said.
    Kelli Arseneau, jsonline.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Land Value Capture and Special Assessment Districts Transportation investments—such as new rail lines, bike lanes, or complete streets—often increase surrounding property values.
    Regina Clewlow, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Of course, other corporations have been down a similarly troubled road in recent years.
    Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The Bobcats went on the road Thursday night and struggled in the second half in a 38-21 loss against Lewisville at Max Goldsmith Stadium.
    Cody Thorn, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Sep. 2025

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“Monorail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monorail. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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