[
US
/ˈbɑkˌskɑɹ/
]
[ UK /bˈɒkskɑː/ ]
[ UK /bˈɒkskɑː/ ]
NOUN
- a freight car with roof and sliding doors in the sides
How To Use boxcar In A Sentence
- The locomotives lead two express boxcars, a heritage baggage, a business class coach, café, three more coaches, and two or three express cars at the end.
- The Union Pacific train was backing into a parked string of five boxcars to transport them, but accidentally struck the sitting boxcars, sending one off of the tracks and into the adjacent cold storage facility.
- It is clear that large numbers of migrants avoided the boxcars of emigrant fifth and travelled fourth.
- The 1970s saw the dawn of the "personal computer" -- a phrase unthinkable a mere decade earlier, when computers had shrunk from boxcar-sized to merely pickup-truck-sized ... but were not expected to shrink much more. Chris Weigant: From The Pentagon To Monty Python: The Internet Turns 40
- My mother fixed whatever a gandy dancer brought to the boxcar where we lived. Rain Gods
- It is clear that large numbers of migrants avoided the boxcars of emigrant fifth and travelled fourth.
- boxcars" -- razor knives -- to inflict damage: an Asian girl, it was said, was cut up bad, and a non-skin nearly lost an eye. Chicago Reader
- They boarded the boxcar with no sides, so they could fire out at anyone close to the train.
- Several Western Maryland cars were alongside along with a boxcar and caboose.
- The 1970s saw the dawn of the "personal computer" -- a phrase unthinkable a mere decade earlier, when computers had shrunk from boxcar-sized to merely pickup-truck-sized... but were not expected to shrink much more. Chris Weigant: From The Pentagon To Monty Python: The Internet Turns 40