uncouple

How To Use uncouple In A Sentence

• The train was pulled into the wye South of the station to uncouple the roadrailers (Amtrak express freight cars) added in Albany and then backed into the station.
• Argument by Insignification — For any given argument where an overwhelmingly sufficient number of points of evidence is advanced to justify an assertion as to theme or subtext, and where these points of evidence are undeniably manifest in the text, a rejection of significance for each notable element of a work, large or small, recurrent or isolated, may be employed to uncouple the link between evidence and interpretation on each count. Archive 2009-03-01
• One ethical error can threaten the whole system, because if one is willing to overlook one small wrong, that can allow another, until the whole chain uncouples.
• Reading literature and having a damn good time had become quietly but decidedly uncoupled.
• But on his way back to the tender he unfortunately uncouples the mortar truck, detaching it from the rest of the train.
• Two wagons had been uncoupled and set up at the far side as back to back dressing rooms.
• The uncoupled coupling swayed slightly back and forth on its slightly rusted hinge.
• Only later did we learn that the towns on the signs indicated where those cars would be uncoupled.
• The carriage which included the two compartments in question was uncoupled and side-tracked.
• The train was pulled into the wye south of the station to uncouple the roadrailers (Amtrak express freight cars) added in Albany and then backed into the station.