subway train

noun

: an underground train

Examples of subway train in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web 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 Shortly before the mayor announced the shooting death of Police Officer Jonathan Diller from a hospital in Queens, the police confirmed that a man had been fatally pushed into the path of a subway train in an unprovoked attack in Manhattan. Dana Rubinstein, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024 Related article Two rival gangs clashed on New York subway train before shooting that left 1 dead, 5 injured, police say Shortly before 5 p.m., two men, ages 32 and 36, got into a fight on a northbound A train in Brooklyn, according to the New York Police Department. Jeff Winter, CNN, 15 Mar. 2024 Last November, two people were shot and injured on a subway train in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, ABC7 New York reported. USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 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 Goldman questioned why Williams, who is Black, had not received the same treatment as Daniel Penny, a white 24-year-old Marine veteran who was seen in a video putting Jordan Neely in a fatal chokehold on a subway train. Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 15 June 2023 Woman in critical condition after being shoved into moving NYC subway train: Police Henderson appears to have been the peacemaker in a dispute between two other men over loud music when he was shot, police said. Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 15 Jan. 2024 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

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“Subway train.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/subway%20train. Accessed 17 Apr. 2024.

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