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- noun The quantity contained in a
train . - noun by extension A large quantity.
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Examples
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Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) has to keep a bomb from killing a trainful of Chicago commuters, identify the bomber, foil his plan for detonating a dirty bomb in the heart of the city, connect with a pretty passenger (Michelle Monaghan), and do it all within the same eight minutes that a secret military time travel program called Source Code permits him.
Dan Persons: Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast: Source Code Dan Persons 2011
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Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) has to keep a bomb from killing a trainful of Chicago commuters, identify the bomber, foil his plan for detonating a dirty bomb in the heart of the city, connect with a pretty passenger (Michelle Monaghan), and do it all within the same eight minutes that a secret military time travel program called Source Code permits him.
Dan Persons: Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast: Source Code Dan Persons 2011
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Pyra realized belatedly that the trainful of children was watching.
Stork Naked Anthony, Piers 2006
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They were loaded with hose, and were passing to the trainful of workers who were converting
The War in the Air Herbert George 2006
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Not one of that trainful of Pert and Pretties in Some Like It Hot was cast as cross or mean or sneaky.
All The Available Light Yona Zeldis McDonough 2002
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Not one of that trainful of Pert and Pretties in Some Like It Hot was cast as cross or mean or sneaky.
All The Available Light Yona Zeldis McDonough 2002
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I'll tell you one thing, we sure turned a trainful of freaks into a party, man, ha ha ha ha, didn't we, boys?
Joplin in Concert Joplin, Janis 1972
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But it had run in her head so, since early this morning on the other train, when Cassie had wanted her to sing right before a trainful of people.
The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954
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At Milan they caught the Swiss mail, and passed up and through the mountains, emerging from the St. Gothard tunnel just as a trainful of passengers burst from the refreshment rooms at Goschenen and thronged the mail to Brindisi.
My New Curate P.A. Sheehan
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"You see we think Weeks is coming down the line now, with a trainful of armed men, and he may force us into a fight before morning."
The Short Line War Merwin-Webster
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