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How to use cowcatcher in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word cowcatcher? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
The cowcatcher had been modified to receive one end of a track segment and align pegs to matching hollows in the track.
Get your hands up to your forehead with your forearms protecting your face like a train's cowcatcher.
Agnes preferred to ride on a platform above the cowcatcher, a nice metaphor for the desire to look ahead in life.
The equipment was mounted on the lower part of the engine's front, right where a cowcatcher would be mounted on a steam locomotive.
A manager's like a snowplow or a cowcatcher, clearing the way so the people who can do their stuff can actually do it.
Finally, it can triple as a cowcatcher, much like the ones featured on throbbing steam engines.
In 1969 it was fitted with a warning bell, cowcatcher, and buckeye couplings before travelling to the US and Canada.
It's totally chaotic – health and safety doesn't exist: we stood on the cowcatcher on the front of the train.
Some say it looks like a railroad engine with a cowcatcher, but it could be a look we'll warm up to.
He restored it and took it on a tour of the United States, for which it was fitted with a bell, headlamp and cowcatcher.
And this train, which was just a bunch of cardboard with a cowcatcher attached to it, was pushed into view by a bunch of people.
He also added the pilot, or cowcatcher, to the locomotive and increased the number of drive wheels to eight for better traction.
Sitting on the train's cowcatcher, appearing to improvise breathtaking stunts, it is as if Keaton is in the very forefront of movie-making possibility.
Charles Babbage was an English mathematician and inventor: he invented the cowcatcher, reformed the British postal system, and was a pioneer in the fields of operations research and actuarial science.
Examples from Classical Literature
We always expect to see an enormous red tongue running in and out over the cowcatcher.
The whistle wailed against the sky, the gunmen piled on cowcatcher and carsteps.
As many wounded as possible were piled on to the engine, standing in the cab, lying on the tender, or clinging to the cowcatcher.
And I never had much trouble with the Spiggoties, what of letting them sneak free rides in the tender or on the cowcatcher.
Captain Fuller rode on the pilot of his engine, and removed such of the obstructions as were not knocked off by the cowcatcher.
But we will spoil their game I guess, and I don't think the railroad company will complain at the loss of a cowcatcher.
That will be 70 foot long, with the cowcatcher 30 feet from the ground, rebuilt from scratch but with absolute authentic realism.
But didn't I come near to ripping the cowcatcher from that engine?
It's against the law to spear fish with a cowcatcher this time o' year.
Tenders are invited for Construction of, PHC Building with 1G type and 1 H type quarters, Cowcatcher, Dirilling of tube well, Paver Block, at Changatola District Balaghat.
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