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
  • That space on a subway train can move two dozen people at a time.
    — Nolan Hicks, Curbed, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Six times so far this year, someone has climbed out on top of a moving subway train and died.
    — Nolan Hicks, Curbed, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Not many teams have been able to slow down New York’s runaway subway train.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 11 June 2024
  • 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
  • Hochul announced an effort to put law enforcement on every subway train during the overnight hours for the next six months.
    — Jack Birle, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 14 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Joseph Lynskey survived being shoved in front of a subway train on New Year’s Eve.
    — Melissa Kirsch, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
  • This attack comes just days after a woman was lit on fire and burned alive on a New York City subway train.
    — Stepheny Price, Fox News, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Because it’s filmed on a running, live subway train, the public also feels comfortable weighing in.
    — Randee Dawn, Variety, 26 May 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • The incident comes days after a woman was fatally set ablaze on a subway train in Brooklyn.
    — Minnah Arshad, USA TODAY, 28 Dec. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The 15-year-old boy arrested earlier this week had a set of subway train keys on him when he was taken into custody, officials said.
    — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 6 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • On New Year's Eve, a 45-year-old man was shoved ahead of an incoming subway train in Manhattan.
    — Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 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
  • The suspect was arrested after three teenagers riding another subway train recognized him from a wanted poster and called 911.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Maguire’s Spider-Man stops a runaway subway train, and Holland’s uses webs to hold a splitting ferry together.
    — WIRED, 29 Sep. 2023
  • 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

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