commuter train

noun

: a train that people use to get to and from work

Examples of commuter train in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The toilet, the jammed commuter train, the garbage can, all replete with loneliness. Yukio Mishima, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2024 An Illinois man was charged Tuesday with murder in connection with the Labor Day shooting of four people who authorities said were sleeping in their seats on a Chicago-area commuter train. Antonio Planas, NBC News, 4 Sep. 2024 Police in Forest Park, Ill., have identified the suspect who allegedly opened fire and killed four people on a Chicago commuter train early Labor Day morning, Sept. 2. Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 4 Sep. 2024 In the summer of 2016, a 16-year-old boy attacked passengers on a commuter train in southern Germany with an ax, and in France, two men who entered a Catholic church beheaded an 85-year-old priest with knives. Peter R. Neumann, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2017 See all Example Sentences for commuter train 

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“Commuter train.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/commuter%20train. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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