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Example sentences for "trackmen"

Lexicographically close words:
tracked; tracker; trackers; tracking; trackless; tracks; trackway; tract; tractable; tractate
  1. The trackmen parted only long enough to give way to the advancing cars.

  2. Men of the operating department paced the bench impatiently, and trackmen working below in the flare of scattered torches looked up oftener from their shovels to where a chain of active figures moved on the face of the cliff.

  3. On the Canadian Pacific seventeen per cent of the total force of trackmen is Chinese.

  4. The Italians began coming over in droves a little more than a quarter of a century ago and almost the first men they displaced were the Irish trackmen on our railroads.

  5. The new union took the name of Brotherhood of Railway Trackmen of North America.

  6. The yard trackmen were all out, as were also the Illinois Central switchmen and the Rock Island machinists and boiler makers.

  7. A gang of trackmen filed slowly out after them.

  8. Reed Young had gone with an engine to wire reënforcements, and McCloud, active among the trackmen until the conflagration spent itself, had retired to the shade of the hill.

  9. The remains of many cars lay in heaps along the curve, and the trackmen like firebugs ran in and out of them.

  10. The trackmen stopped work to look, but her attitude in their gaze was one of impatience rather than of embarrassment.

  11. Trackmen at the bridge Tuesday night flagged Number One and reported the river wild, and sheet ice running.

  12. Don't say Big Sandy to trackmen and hand out a cigar.

  13. May opened bleaker than April; even the trackmen walked with set faces; the dirtiest half-breed on the line knew now what the mountains held.

  14. Some polytechnical idiot at a safe distance dubbed it The Big Sandy; and the Big Sandy it is to this day on map and in folder--but not in the lingo of trackmen nor the heart of the Sioux.

  15. For some moments afraid to move, Alex lay on his back, listening to the hubbub beneath him, and wondering in terror what the trackmen intended doing with their prisoner.

  16. It was Big Tony, the Italian who had led the trouble amongst the trackmen at Bixton two years back, and with whom he had had the thrilling encounter at the old brick-yard.

  17. The trackmen raced for the nearest openings, and dove after.

  18. Refuge niches for trackmen are placed at 25-ft.

  19. Reporters and trackmen who steadily scoffed at it were themselves attacked with violent heart-beats when they crossed the invisible and fatal line.


  20. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trackmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.