How to Use caboose in a Sentence

caboose

noun
  • His moving on kind of gave me a kick in the caboose to have courage.
    — Lindsay Kimble, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
  • His moving on kind of gave me a kick in the caboose to have courage.
    — Tommy McArdle, People.com, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Book one of their cabins or train cabooses for an overnight stay.
    — Jennifer Broome, The Denver Post, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Specialty crooks went straight to the caboose of out-of-town trains.
    — Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • The property includes a red caboose where guests can spend the night.
    — Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 8 Apr. 2023
  • First, the restaurant is an old train caboose, with no indoor seating.
    — Rebecca Flint Marx, New York Times, 26 May 2017
  • Those who want to stay overnight can sleep in the railway’s bunkhouse or train caboose for $60 a night.
    — Jay Jones, latimes.com, 3 July 2019
  • The caboose fits four guests, with one bed in the cupola, and is perfect for kids obsessed with trains.
    — Meg St-Esprit, Good Housekeeping, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Three people died in a fire in the caboose after being trapped inside.
    — Kelly Kazek, AL.com, 11 Jan. 2018
  • That was merely the caboose for what transpired in the minutes before.
    — Chris Branch, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The restaurant operates out of a caboose parked on the gravel lot.
    — Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Trump asked for Democrats to jump on the caboose after the tax train has already left the station.
    — Heidi M Przybyla, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2017
  • Her new 1,000-square-foot home came with two bedrooms and a sort of caboose that makes a third.
    — Sarah Medford, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2022
  • The cabooses each sleep three to four people, while the cabins come with a bed and sleeper sofa.
    — Troy Smith, Axios, 18 July 2024
  • For more privacy, be sure to book the private caboose, which can hold up to six passengers.
    — Acacia Gabriel, Travel + Leisure, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Two of the cabooses have cupolas, which offer up-in-the-trees vistas of the forest.
    — Brian E. Clark, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2017
  • For the crime of being a snooze, Spiral is bringing up the caboose for the Saw train.
    — Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 1 June 2024
  • The caboose model will feature an O-scale train, which is slightly larger.
    — Mayra Cruz, Houston Chronicle, 7 July 2018
  • Guests can stay in the lodge or in their very own caboose or a locomotive that has been turned into a luxury room.
    — Justin Franz, The Know, 1 Sep. 2019
  • The later phases were to include a small event center and the restoration of a historic train caboose.
    — John Delapp, Houston Chronicle, 15 June 2020
  • The venue is set, rather perfectly, in a building made of shipping containers and an old caboose.
    — Mackensy Lunsford, Nashville Tennessean, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The depot is the former train station in town along with its red caboose on Garfield Avenue.
    — cleveland, 15 Apr. 2022
  • One of the old red cabooses sat nearly unharmed Monday near the entrance.
    — Monique O. Madan, miamiherald, 11 Sep. 2017
  • The next day, the rail company's cabooses were draped in mourning, the article said.
    — Kelly Kazek, AL.com, 11 Jan. 2018
  • More than a decade ago, Zorro Ranch placed a vintage caboose on the trust land near a petroglyph site.
    — Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2019
  • But let’s face it, the real goose in the caboose that led the way, the North Star, was Spinal Tap.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2021
  • The train doesn't stop, but the hunter hauls hide through its cars, ultimately jumping off its caboose and into Alex's arms.
    — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 6 Apr. 2025
  • In Wilton, a caboose serves as a resting spot and source of information on the small town that bills itself as the heart of the trail.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 June 2018
  • On the tiny, cramped balcony of a caboose, Tabitha asked the questions that young voters were interested in.
    — Dave Sirulnick, Variety, 16 May 2023
  • Although the scenery doesn’t change, train lovers are still wowed at the prospect of spending the night in a parked caboose on a farm in the Smoky Mountains.
    — Larry Bleiberg, USA TODAY, 25 May 2018

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