Results for Shunting

Usage examples for Shunting:

• It would seem, indeed, that this, or something like it, must really have been the case, for he not only observed and enjoyed the sunset but also paid particular attention to the conversation of two men who stood not far from him, and at the same time was cognisant of the fact that behind him, a couple of hundred yards or more up the line, a goods engine was engaged in shunting trucks. "The Iron Horse", R.M. Ballantyne

• The course of the river itself is hidden by the shoulders of Egton Low Moor beneath us, but faint sounds of the shunting of trucks are carried up to the heights. "Yorkshire Painted And Described", Gordon Home

• I could give you a pull, sir, John replied with respectful gravity, They keep a rope at the station for shunting "Carmen's Messenger", Harold Bindloss