How to Use subway train in a Sentence

subway train

noun
  • Not many teams have been able to slow down New York’s runaway subway train.
    Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 11 June 2024
  • Penny was charged with to second degree manslaughter in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely on a subway train.
    C Mandler, CBS News, 14 June 2023
  • One critic approvingly likened their sound at its most cacophonous to a New York subway train screeching to a stop at a station.
    Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 9 June 2024
  • On March 9, Christian Valdez, a homeless parolee, shoved his girlfriend into the path of a Manhattan subway train —which severed her legs near her knees.
    Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 5 Aug. 2024
  • This is a few decibels higher than your headphones on half-volume, and a few decibels lower than the sound of an approaching subway train.
    Alida Nugent, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Apr. 2023
  • In the middle of a bustling city, surrounded by anger and boredom, a man experiences a romance while waiting for a subway train.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 9 June 2023
  • Everything came back to me, all the moments and memories rushing forward like a New York City subway train emerging from the darkness.
    Zeniya Cooley, refinery29.com, 15 Aug. 2023
  • But his audacious plan to tag up an entire 10-car subway train — widely acknowledged as one of the first to ever try it — would make his career as a hip-hop folk hero.
    August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2023
  • In the following clip, the brother and sister sat beside one another on the subway train, watching their reflections in the train’s windows.
    Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Among recent high-profile incidents, a man was shot by his own gun during a fight on a crowded subway train earlier this month.
    Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Officials said the incident was a minor derailment that happened at slow speed as a subway train was leaving the 96th Street station.
    Greg Wehner, Fox News, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Maguire’s Spider-Man stops a runaway subway train, and Holland’s uses webs to hold a splitting ferry together.
    WIRED, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The world’s heaviest single hour of rain ever recorded in a major city occurred two years ago in the central city of Zhengzhou, flooding a subway train and road underpasses.
    Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Attorneys for a man who opened fire on a crowded New York subway train, injuring 10 and sparking an intense city-wide manhunt, are asking that he be sentenced to 18 years in prison.
    Phil Helsel, NBC News, 21 Sep. 2023
  • After landing at Heathrow Airport recently, Edwards needed to catch a subway train to central London.
    Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Pokemon game characters of Japanese video game manufacturer Nintendo are on display on a subway train car in Tokyo, Japan.
    Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Jordan Neely, 30 years old, was pronounced dead after an unidentified 24-year-old man placed him in a headlock Monday afternoon on a subway train in lower Manhattan, according to officials and video posted to social media.
    Jimmy Vielkind, wsj.com, 4 May 2023
  • Witnesses and Penny's attorney said that Neely was acting erratically, yelling about being tired and hungry, on the subway train when Penny, allegedly attempting to subdue him, placed Neely in the fatal restraint.
    Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 9 May 2023
  • Following several high-profile incidents, including a shooting on a subway train that left 10 people wounded last year, Mayor Eric Adams promised to deploy additional police officers and mental health workers throughout the transit system.
    Jake Offenhartz and Bobby Caina Calvan, Anchorage Daily News, 4 May 2023

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