If an engine is waiting at a hand derail or at a crossover for a train, neither switch should be thrown until the train has passed.
We are learning, too, that a good derail can be installed without cutting the rail.
Then it is that a brief hour may side-track orderail the good work of many days.
All along the track, from outside of Benton to the top of a long, slow rise of desert were indications of the fact that Indians had torn up the track or attempted to derail trains.
I've got a couple of ties, an' if thot wreck threatens I'll heave a tie off on the track an' derail me private car.
The attack of the savages seemed to be concentrating forward, evidently to derail the engine or kill the engineer.
But let me be clear: If this Congress sends me a new sanctions bill now that threatens to derail these talks, I will veto it.
And I want to work with this Congress to make sure those already burdened with student loans can reduce their monthly payments so that student debt doesn't derail anyone's dreams.
He told us how toderail a train without gunpowder.
And then when the train hit the chain it would derail the train?
Did Oswald mention during this conversation that he could easily derail a train, for example, by securing and fastening a chain around the railroad track?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "derail" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
