wagon train in English

noun
1
a convoy or train of covered horse-drawn wagons, as used by pioneers or settlers in North America.
The southern army began its retreat to Virginia late on 4 July, its wagon train of wounded soldiers stretching for seventeen miles.
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1. Not on my wagon train.

2. The enemy attacked our wagon train.

3. They joined the wagon train for safety.

4. She attacked a wagon train two years ago.

5. Intrepid pioneers came to California by wagon train.

6. 22 She attacked a wagon train two years ago.

7. 18 Intrepid pioneers came to California by wagon train.

8. You led that wagon train to them, deserted your post.

9. A long wagon train was snaking its way along the slope.

10. He talked most of them around and kept the wagon train moving.

11. Their journeys by wagon train are fraught with danger, across distances never imagined possible.

12. The noises got nearer and shapes became clearer - horses pulling a long wagon train. Sentencedict.com

13. He was left behind by the rest of the wagon train because his vehicle was so cumbersome.

14. Hastings was not at Fort Bridger at the time-he was leading an earlier wagon train along his new route.

15. An average wagon train included twenty-five to thirty-five wagons pulled by oxen. They traveled about twenty-four kilometers a day.

16. Gene Roddenberry, the creator of the Star Trek series, once described his vision for the show as "Wagon Train to the stars".

17. Tensions increased following the 1857 Mountain Meadows massacre, in which a group of Mormons killed members of a wagon train passing through the region.

18. The Aquanauts (1960-61) aired Wednesday nights on CBS at 7:30 opposite Wagon Train on NBC and Hong Kong with Rod Taylor on ABC

19. Gene Roddenberry sold Star Trek to NBC as a classic adventure drama; he pitched the show as "Wagon Train to the Stars" and as Horatio Hornblower in Space.

20. An army doctor, with no combat experience, is forced to take Command of a cavalry troop escorting a wagon train through hostile Indian country when the unit's Commanding officer dies.

21. Suffering was terrible. An officer who led the wagon train said he learned more about the horrors of war on that one trip than he had learned in all of his battles.

22. The Republicans believe that the wagon train will not make it to the frontier unless some of the old, some of the young, some of the weak are left behind by the side of the trail.