Examples of boat train in a Sentence
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In addition to connecting together to make a boat train, each boat is individually numbered to teach your little one about counting, ordering, and number games.
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Christin Perry, Parents, 29 Mar. 2024
The city feels like Havana without the old Buicks, the signs evoking a prewar era of boat trains and Brylcreem, when superstitious carriage drivers shifted position in their seats after dark to keep the devil from sitting next to them.
—Rick Jordan, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 May 2020
Christin Perry, Parents, 29 Mar. 2024
The city feels like Havana without the old Buicks, the signs evoking a prewar era of boat trains and Brylcreem, when superstitious carriage drivers shifted position in their seats after dark to keep the devil from sitting next to them.
—Rick Jordan, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 May 2020
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Word History
First Known Use
1840, in the meaning defined above
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“Boat train.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boat%20train. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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