How to Use straphanger in a Sentence

straphanger

noun

• His wife stood by him as straphangers both jeered and applauded.
  — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
• Straphangers also issues year-end top-ten worst and best lists.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2017
• However, that didn't ease the nerves of many straphangers.
  — Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2025
• But they weren't told the band's singer and lead guitarist would be among their fellow straphangers.
  — Scott Roxborough, Billboard, 6 Dec. 2017
• The straphanger was standing too close to the edge of the platform when he was struck at the Rockaway Blvd.
  — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 14 Mar. 2026
• The younger victim helped Richard off of the tracks, and straphangers then helped both men back onto the platform before a train came.
  — Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 10 Mar. 2026
• No one scoffed outright at my Thom Browne kilt, but any straphangers who noticed me seemed to very quickly avert their gaze.
  — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 24 June 2019
• As the attacker ran off, the younger victim helped the older man to his feet, with straphangers helping both get back onto the platform.
  — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 10 Mar. 2026
• As the attacker ran off, the younger victim helped the older man to his feet, with straphangers helping both get back onto the platform.
  — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 9 Mar. 2026
• Politicians, fearful of angering straphangers, postponed raising fares, even as the need for more revenues from riders just kept growing.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2025
• Monday’s shooting caused a mass panic on the subway car with straphangers stampeding towards the exits as the train entered the station.
  — Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 29 Apr. 2026
• The April shooting caused a mass panic on the subway car with straphangers stampeding toward the exits as the train entered the station.
  — Julian Roberts-Grmela, New York Daily News, 5 June 2026
• Whether this was a genuinely threatening gesture or the sort of panhandling that straphangers (as they were still called) had learned to evade or ignore is disputed.
  — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
• Cell phone video recorded by a straphanger aboard a train passing through the station shows the killer shove Dawodu, who collapses to the platform covered in blood.
  — Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 19 Feb. 2026
• Hundreds of straphangers were recently stranded on a steamy F train in Manhattan that left them struggling to pry open the doors to escape.
  — Marc Santora, Emma G. Fitzsimmons, Alaska Dispatch News, 28 June 2017
• Cyclists simply know more about how the streets work than drivers do in the same way that subway rats are more attuned to the workings of the transit system than the typical straphanger.
  — Eben Weiss, Outside Online, 11 Apr. 2018
• Cops released photos of a man wanted for slashing a 29-year-old straphanger in the face a week ago aboard an F train in Queens, police said.
  — Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 16 Aug. 2025
• In 1994, when the MetroCard made its début, many straphangers were reluctant to say farewell to the subway token.
  — Taran Dugal, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
• The good news for Chicago straphangers, at least from a sanitary standpoint, is that the CTA may be making the switch to cloth-free seats.
  — John Greenfield, Chicago Reader, 9 Oct. 2017
• Another video recorded by straphangers aboard a train passing through the station shows the killer shove Dawodu, who collapses to the platform covered in blood.
  — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 13 Feb. 2026
• Alcantara, in his graduation robes, made an announcement to the car, thanking his fellow straphangers for joining him for his graduation ceremony.
  — Sarah Jorgensen, CNN, 1 June 2017
• Yesterday straphangers got a surprise in the form of regal modeling legend Iman, who brought her supermodel style underground, quite literally.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 20 July 2017
• This ride must be demolished immediately, and replaced with one where kids pack into buses and take 45 minutes to go half a mile while averting their face from the prominently odorous armpit of an adjacent straphanger.
  — James Lileks, National Review, 24 Oct. 2019
• Wild turkeys gobbled up Staten Island straphangers’ time on Monday, after a flock fouled up service on the Staten Island Railway.
  — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 17 Mar. 2026
• With straphangers living through an especially bad stretch in MTA service over the past couple of years, for instance, the Voice’s subway coverage has been especially vital.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 31 Aug. 2018
• Police are searching for a straphanger suspected of unbolting a door switch from a inside a downtown C train Monday evening, snipping the wires and then absconding with the train part, sources tell the Daily News.
  — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 14 May 2026
• Following attack, straphangers discuss subway safety The stabbing happened as the NYPD recently touted a drop in overall subway crime last month.
  — Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2025
• The back-to-back assaults on woman straphangers in the New York City subway system comes as police scale back the number of cops underground from 300 overnight patrols to 200, officials said.
  — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2025
• The fact that nearly 30 percent of straphangers at Euston Station moving from the southbound Victoria line to the northbound Northern line take an elongated route through the main station concourse suggests there’s a wayfinding problem.
  — Henry Grabar, Slate Magazine, 16 Oct. 2017
• The two men entered the subway station separately and began arguing while the platform was filled with straphangers, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said.
  — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 13 Feb. 2026