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Example sentences for "passenger"

Lexicographically close words:
passd; passe; passed; passel; passen; passengers; passent; passeport; passer; passerby
  1. David Lannarck was the first passenger to alight as number twenty-one came thundering in from the east.

  2. An hour in advance of the arrival of the Pacific Limited, Sam Welborn paced the platform of the Union Pacific passenger station at Cheyenne, awaiting the arrival of his little partner from Omaha.

  3. The first run with one of these streamliners was made on March 21 with the “Coast Daylight” passenger train between San Francisco and Los Angeles.

  4. The remaining 35 still perform routine passenger service between New York and Harmon, and New York and North White Plains.

  5. By the use of higher steam pressure, larger heating surface and grate area, the use of passenger locomotives of the three-coupled type, with the troubles incident to the use of long parallel rods, was put off for a decade.

  6. One passenger indeed, who said he was a Congregationalist, expressed to my friend a wish to have worship; but he was playing at cards every day, and was in other respects no great credit to Congregationalism.

  7. He had caused to be put into the hand of every passenger by that train a tract on the claims of the Sabbath, a large number of which he had printed at his own expense.

  8. The sick passenger seemed to answer the description, and yet he might not have been the Doctor for all that.

  9. That's the house," said the passenger finally, indicating a building with his stubby forefinger.

  10. This passenger sat in front, leaning eagerly forward and urging the driver constantly to a faster gait.

  11. The car pulled up with a jerk and the passenger was out before the machine was fairly at a stop.

  12. The passenger business between New Orleans and Central America was not extensive, and there were no more than twenty people seated around the two tables in the dining room.

  13. So after twa years on the Stornoway I shippit as a fireman on a passenger steamer outward bound frae Glasgow tae Bilbao.

  14. I had no luck there, and I was fair starvin' when yin day I met a freend o' min' on the Dumbarton Road, and he asked me would I like tae wash dishes and peel potaties on a passenger steamer.

  15. In the off-seasons small cargoes of this fish are carried by many of the passenger steamers, to the profit, perhaps, of the captain, but to the intense displeasure of the passengers.

  16. Montreal followed in 1892, when the city passenger rails were electrified.

  17. David McNicoll moved up from assistant passenger agent to general passenger agent until he became manager and vice president.

  18. One hundred and fifty passenger trains enter and leave Montreal railway depots every twenty-four hours.

  19. The City Passenger Railway had ceased to be able to get through to St. Alexander Street, and were almost cut off from proceeding up Bleury.

  20. On December 12th, the Victoria Bridge was at last opened and on the 17th the first passenger train went through.

  21. The new line, known as the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, is now practically complete and is already operating over the major portion of its road, there being a fine passenger and freight service between Ft.

  22. Before the inauguration of the Royal Line, no passenger ships of importance ran to Bristol, and naturally the securing of the Royal Line service was made an occasion of much rejoicing.

  23. One of these is located at Southwalk, about two miles east of the passenger station at St. Lambert, and the other is at Turcot, in Notre Dame de Grace Ward of the City of Montreal.

  24. It is to be noted, too, that these escalators were the very first to be installed in which the step upon which the passenger rides is held continuously horizontal.

  25. To do this it was estimated that there would be required fourteen passenger elevators, ten freight elevators and seven sidewalk elevators of the most recent type.

  26. By making its escalator double-file, Macy's not only slightly more than doubled its capacity but rendered it the full equivalent of at least twenty-five passenger elevators of the largest size.

  27. The routing of freight and passenger traffic with due regard to the fact that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points.

  28. Automobiles--a license tax on passenger automobiles graduated according to horsepower.

  29. The company was merry; a deformed passenger played upon an accordion, and accompanied the singing.

  30. Illustration: The Dahabeah is the passenger boat of the Nile.

  31. By sending the equipment with our Service Engineer via a passenger train to the south of Italy and via destroyer to Malta we were able to meet the ship there on the day she arrived.

  32. Sperry Gyro-Compasses are operating on many of the world’s largest and fastest passenger liners and cargo ships.

  33. Records taken on a well-known passenger liner show that in making her regular trip between New York and Jacksonville, Florida, she saved more than two hours due to steering by a Sperry Gyro-Compass.

  34. I'm a passenger on the steamer, and I came ashore with the mate.

  35. At daybreak the ship's captain and some of his sailors knocked at the garden door and asked for the passenger who was to embark.

  36. However to obviate the constant inconvenience of so doing, the foot-passenger is in duty bound to screen his face as above; and thus, by a fiction which deceives nobody, much unnecessary trouble is saved.

  37. Those who go to Albany by steam have something the same idea of the scenery of West Point that an inside passenger may have of the effect of a stage-coach at top-speed.

  38. I remember noting this contrast with some emotion, on board the packet-ship in which I was not long ago a passenger from England.

  39. He wondered if the passenger knew anything of the quality and reputation of the ship to which he was entrusting his fortunes.

  40. And when the train moved away, mingling its escaping steam with the slower mists of the mountain, he found himself alone on the platform--the only passenger and apparently the sole occupant of the station.

  41. And when the little steamboat that occasionally entered the loch took away a solitary passenger from the pier-head, the simplest parting was invested with a dreary loneliness that might have brought tears to the most hardened eye.

  42. For an instant he half regretted that he had not suggested, in some discreet way, the conclusion he had arrived at after witnessing the girl's parting with the middle-aged passenger the day before.

  43. He felt he could understand Gray's enthusiasm, and by an odd association of ideas he found himself thinking of the resigned face of the lonely passenger on the Skyscraper.

  44. And he was a little troubled to observe that the passenger was a middle-aged man, whose hard features were already considerably worn with trial and experience.

  45. The young girl and the passenger had just returned from the cabin.

  46. I wish you to take a passenger to Tokio for me, Captain Strathmore," said the stranger.

  47. Although Captain Strathmore was on duty, and it was against the rules for any passenger to approach or address him, yet there was one who was unrestrained by rules or regulations, no matter how sternly they were enforced in other cases.

  48. Mate Storms explained that the craft in which they came to this portion of the world was wrecked, and that three of the crew were lost, and the captain, mate and a single passenger saved.

  49. At Queenborough Station, in the morning, we scrutinised every passenger that landed from the Princess Clementine.

  50. My leg was quite cured by this time, and my only trouble on the voyage to England was that the Bangor Castle, which is one of the fastest passenger steamers afloat, did not travel quickly enough.

  51. Down at the wharf our Dane interviewed several boatmen, all of whom had seen the Thomas Wilcox arrive and depart, and all of whom agreed that a passenger had landed and had engaged a conveyance and driven away.

  52. The communication gave me a shock, for it struck me that the passenger referred to could be no other than James Strong, who, if he had already visited and left the island, must have taken the treasure with him.

  53. The Passenger Agents framed agreements to control the passenger traffic and the Freight Agents made agreements to control the goods traffic, and both were equally futile.

  54. Meanwhile the smell permeated through the car and at last the passenger sitting immediately behind the countryman saw whence the unpleasantness arose.

  55. And the agreements made by General Managers bound no better than those which Passenger Agents or Traffic Managers had made before.

  56. I remarked on this to a fellow-passenger who spoke English.

  57. Dozens of passenger coaches were saved in this way.


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

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    passenger cargo; passenger traffic; passenger train; passenger trains; passengers carried; passengers were