How to Use commuter train in a Sentence

commuter train

noun
  • The heavy commuter train and light rail run on electric power.
    — Brian Sherrod, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The commuter train remained halted on the tracks.
    — CBS News, 26 May 2026
  • These days, audiences can be in their bedroom, on a commuter train or in a coffee shop.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
  • The toilet, the jammed commuter train, the garbage can, all replete with loneliness.
    — Yukio Mishima, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2024
  • That led staff to stop a second commuter train at the station, where it was struck by a long-distance commuter train.
    — ABC News, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Truckers can’t hop on a commuter train or a subway to make their deliveries, the suit says.
    — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 31 May 2024
  • Believe it or not, one of the best ways to take in the botanical scenery is from a window seat on an everyday commuter train.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The overground commuter train left on time but stopped 20 minutes short of its destination.
    — Dominic Green, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The commuter train crashed near the town of Gelida, about 35 minutes from Barcelona.
    — Joseph Wilson, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Station staff then stopped the second commuter train, which led to the long-distance train crashing into it, the department said.
    — Adam England, PEOPLE, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The Coaster provides commuter train service to eight stations from San Diego to Oceanside.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2023
  • This weekday web, laced together by telephone, ticker tape, elevator, subway, and commuter train, made the modern city make sense.
    — Curbed, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Debris on railroad tracks caused an Amtrak commuter train to derail near Porta Costa; no one was injured.
    — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Police said the collision happened between the SUV and a Metra commuter train.
    — Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 9 Dec. 2025
  • The four people killed on a Chicagoland commuter train early on the morning of Labor Day appeared to be sleeping when they were fatally shot.
    — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Millions of passengers ride the transport hub’s high-speed trains that link Paris to other cities and its commuter train services to the suburbs and towns in the Paris region.
    — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 3 Feb. 2024
  • The toll revenue has already been earmarked for crucial repairs and upgrades to the city’s deteriorating subway system, buses and two commuter train lines.
    — Winnie Hu, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Season two follows a Berlin commuter train overtaken during rush hour, trapping hundreds of passengers in a high-stakes hostage situation.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Regular commuter train and ferry services guarantee a fast and convenient commute to New York City.
    — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Last week, a long-distance train slammed into a commuter train that had stopped near a station just outside the capital of Jakarta, after hitting a taxi that had broken down in the middle of the tracks.
    — ABC News, 6 May 2026
  • One person was struck and killed by an A Line heavy commuter train traveling to Denver Union Station on Sunday night.
    — Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 18 May 2026
  • Shemberger’s Hyundai Elantra was hit by the commuter train, ejecting his wife, who was in the backseat and fatally injuring his grandson, who was in the front passenger seat.
    — Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Two days after that, a commuter train derailed after a containment wall fell on the track due to heavy rain near the city of Barcelona, killing the driver and seriously injuring four passengers.
    — CNN Money, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Ditto for the suspect in Zarutska’s gruesome knifing death on a Charlotte, North Carolina, commuter train.
    — Paul Bedard, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The second train was a Metra commuter train, according to the Barrington Fire Department.
    — Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2024
  • On Tuesday, a commuter train derailed in Gelida, near Barcelona, killing the driver and injuring 37 people.
    — Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Chicago — After a long journey by bus from Texas, the commuter train ride into Chicago is probably the shortest trip for arriving migrants.
    — Marybel Gonzalez, CBS News, 10 Jan. 2024
  • An earlier attack on a commuter train in Crimea killed one person and injured three others, forcing authorities to shift schedules to limit service during daytime hours.
    — ABC News, 11 June 2026
  • The agency’s goal is to reduce travel time to 33 minutes on the Coaster commuter train between Oceanside and downtown San Diego.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2024
  • An Amtrak commuter train with 55 passengers struck a tree that had been downed and derailed near Port Costa, California.
    — Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2023

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