Definition of "derailments" [derailments]

• Plural form of derailment. (noun)

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• "The fact that the film survives these late derailments is a testimony to how good the rest of it really is."
• "He noted that for several years he'd had to eat "sarnies" caked in coal dust, while totally alone each day at the middle bend of a pitch-black colliery tunnel his job had been to watch for derailments at the bend."
• "Now, maybe modern technology and materials have made train travel through that area safer, but there have been problems with derailments in that area in the past, most notably in 1989."