Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A railroad-train intended for the expeditious conveyance of passengers, mail, or parcels, and making few or no stops between terminal stations: distinguished from a local or accommodation train.

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Examples

  • The story was an express-train barreling down the track, only no one in the audience knew where it was heading.

    April 2009 2009

  • The story was an express-train barreling down the track, only no one in the audience knew where it was heading.

    MIND MELD: If We Ran Battlestar Galactica 2009

  • More securities with the label subprime or Alt-A attached to them are deemed too controversial to own, particularly with the constant threat of express-train credit downgrades taking their ratings many notches lower.

    Making A Mint 2008

  • There was the expected blast; then the hillside shifted greasily under him, like a giant shrugging in uneasy sleep, and he heard the express-train rumble of sliding rock.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

  • These findings contradict the timing and geography of the express-train model for Polynesian origins.

    Pacific Lizards or Red Herrings? 1999

  • The other sled was coming up like an express-train.

    THE KING OF MAZY MAY: A STORY OF THE KLONDIKE 1993

  • While beating his hands against his sides he turned and looked down the long slippery slope, and figured, in case he slipped, that he would be flying with the speed of an express-train ere he took the final plunge into the icy bed of the Yukon.

    Up The Slide 1993

  • Kiki cackled too, and then went off into her express-train performance, which drew people from all over the field at once.

    The Circus of Adventure Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1952

  • "I've got yer now, sure," he was just repeating, when with a deafening roar the express-train came tearing down the road.

    Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas Various

  • I was very hungry, and would willingly have re-entered the boulevards in search of a supper; but the express-train going toward

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Various

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