How to Use subway train in a Sentence

subway train

noun
  • Three of the four men then beat up a man on a subway train.
    — CBS News, 18 Nov. 2025
  • The 15-year-old victim was shot in the neck and back during the clash on the Queens subway train.
    — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Faster than the subway train that will soon make thunder under Manhattan's busy streets.
    — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2026
  • But, if dressed in modern attire, this prehistoric relative may not have drawn too many stares on a subway train.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 26 Dec. 2025
  • This mobile bar crisscrosses the room’s checkerboard floor with the growling rumble of a subway train.
    — Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2025
  • A day later, the beloved grandmother was struck by a subway train in Manhattan.
    — Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Because it’s filmed on a running, live subway train, the public also feels comfortable weighing in.
    — Randee Dawn, Variety, 26 May 2026
  • The brazen rush-hour theft — partially dismantling an in-service subway train while riding on it — is at least the second such act in a week.
    — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 14 May 2026
  • She was seen in an Instagram video trying to sell vinyls and CDs on a subway train and on a sidewalk as people passed by.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 13 Sep. 2025
  • President Demetrius Crichlow said the tragedy involved subway surfing, or riding on the outside of a moving subway train.
    — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Pre-security, travelers can also move between terminals via a below-ground subway train.
    — Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 16 June 2026
  • In May, Wilson was arrested for allegedly smoking crack on a subway train, according to police.
    — Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Two teens fell from atop a New York City subway train crossing a bridge, leaving one dead and another critically injured, police said.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 23 May 2026
  • The suspect was on a subway train before the incident and then moved out onto the platform, a law enforcement official told CNN.
    — Gloria Pazmino, CNN Money, 11 Apr. 2026
  • On a New York subway train, Clay encounters Lula (Mara), a seductive but sinister white stranger who slowly begins to unravel his life.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 2 Jan. 2026
  • In December 2024, a woman was killed after she was set on fire in an unprovoked attack on a NYC subway train in Brooklyn.
    — Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 4 Dec. 2025
  • The rides on a 1959 subway train will include holiday stories, complimentary hot chocolate, singalongs and a visit from Santa.
    — Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2026
  • When a gunman opened fire on a subway train in 2022, Conductor Raven Haynes helped keep riders calm and directed them to another train across the platform that carried them to safety.
    — John Samuelsen, New York Daily News, 17 Mar. 2026
  • In 2021, an elevated overpass on a Mexico City metro line collapsed onto a road, killing 26 people and injuring dozens just as a subway train was crossing over the section.
    — Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2026
  • In 2021, an elevated overpass on a Mexico City metro line collapsed onto a road, killing 26 people and injuring dozens just as a subway train was crossing over the section.
    — ABC News, 21 Apr. 2026
  • In late 1984, the 37-year-old Manhattan resident shot four Black teenagers on a subway train after one had asked him for $5, and instead of being treated as a murderous racist, Goetz was hailed by the tabloid press as a vigilante hero.
    — The Week Us, TheWeek, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The play takes place on a subway train, and though that remains a pivotal setting, Gaines’ opens up the drama, situating Clay and Lula within a broader social landscape, reinforcing the idea that their encounter is not isolated but embedded in the violence of New York City.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 3 Jan. 2026
  • After the first season found Sam Nelson (Idris Elba) unwittingly involved in the hijacking of a plane, Season 2 of the show takes things underground, as Sam is part of a hijacking of a U-Bahn subway train in Berlin, specifically on the U5 route.
    — Barry Levitt, Time, 4 Mar. 2026

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