branch line
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.53 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A secondary railroad route or one subsidiary to a railroad's mainlines.
Example Sentences
- "But the states were generally concerned with the location of trunk lines and left it to cities and counties to worry about branch lines."
- "This is itself a cheerless spot, particularly on a rainy day, when, overshadowed by the great massif of rock that towers in the background, and surrounded by the grey and cheerless quarries, it has a depressing character much in contrast with the green verdure encountered on the northern end of this interesting branch line."
- "They saddled themselves with the handling of light flows on a multiplicity of branch lines, and they sacrificed the speed, reliability and low cost of through train operation, even over the main arteries of the system."
- "Above all, Eurostar needs to be proactive in improving the service, reducing fares, and getting back to a post-COVID normal, despite Brexit. Or is it that SNCF just feels London is on a branch line from the rest of Europe, and not worth bothering about?"