Use "railroad tie" in a sentence

1. still there—a rusted blue color—but the tracks and railroad ties were missing

2. As he crossed the tracks, the rope slid into the split end of a railroad tie

3. Stanley grasped the end of the rope and pulled with all his strength to slide it from under the split railroad tie

4. I could’ve used it to drill a railroad tie

5. As she ran she continued to stare into the light of her handbeam illuminating the railroad ties and the rubble lying on or between them

6. stubbed his foot on railroad tie, tripping, and falling hard to the ground

7. the railroad ties was difficult at best with his odd gate and limp

8. Olin continued, "Some of the timbers near stream level and perhaps all of them should receive a treatment to prevent rot over years of time, much the same as railroad ties

9. It was the sort of noise you would expect the sun-shimmer to make rising from hot railroad ties on a blazing summer day, when there is that flurried silence and you see the air eddy and whorl and ribbon, and expect a sound from the process but get nothing but an arched tautness of the eardrums and the tense quiet

10. And as they rode on into town she was humming, humming a strange soft tune, and he glanced over and listened to it, and it was the sound you would expect to hear from sun-warmed railroad ties on a hot summer day when the air rises in a shimmer, flurried and whorling; a sound in one key, one pitch, rising a little, falling a little, humming, humming, but constant, peaceful, and wondrous to hear