Hospital Train (Noun)
Meaning
A military train built to transport wounded troops to a hospital.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The hospital train chugged slowly out of the war-torn city, carrying hundreds of wounded soldiers to a safer location for medical treatment.
- As the battle raged on, the hospital train stood by, ready to transport the wounded to a field hospital in the rear.
- During World War I, hospital trains played a crucial role in evacuating casualties from the front lines to medical facilities in the rear.
- The Red Cross had dispatched a hospital train to the disaster zone to provide medical care and transportation to victims of the devastating earthquake.
- In the midst of the civil war, the hospital train was a lifeline for those injured in combat, offering a chance for medical treatment and recovery.