chug out
Frequency: 4.51.2 per million words
Indicates departure or movement out of a place, like a station.
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- The old steam train chugged out of the station, billowing smoke.
- We watched as the little ferry chugged out of the harbor at dawn.
- The locomotive was slowly chugging out of the tunnel into the daylight.
- With a final whistle, the last train chugged out of the valley.
- The vintage tractor chugged noisily out of the old barn.
- The children gathered to watch the miniature train chug out of its shed.
- I could hear the freight train beginning to chug out of the railyard.
- The old bus laboriously chugged out of the city depot.
- Every morning, the first engine would chug out onto the main line.
- Having finished its repairs, the boat chugged out to sea.