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Example sentences for "commuters"

Lexicographically close words:
commutator; commutators; commute; commuted; commuter; commuting; commyng; commytted; como; comodities
  1. After a few days, Ernie found the traffic and parking problems as nervous and wearisome as ever and he grew envious of the snug commuters meditating luxuriously in their electric coaches.

  2. All the commuters had to leave the pneumo-train and edge their way along three miles of catwalk to the station.

  3. Some angry commuters pried open the conductor's cab, and found the man snoozing quite contentedly.

  4. Even commuters have children now and then," I added.

  5. Spring had come to the commuters and I thought sardonically of what could be expected at every country club the next night--Saturday.

  6. She says commuters know nothing at all about horses and just buy them blindfold, and that, if we buy a horse from a commuter, we are sure to get a worthless horse that the commuter has had foisted upon him and is anxious to get rid of.

  7. Rolfs had been green with jealousy because so many commuters were listening to Millington, and the moment Millington mentioned teeth Rolfs sneered.

  8. Thousands of commuters lunged at the doors to make their escape to the streets of New York above them.

  9. He was one of the few black commuters from the affluent bedroom community and his size made him more conspicuous than his color.

  10. Another splendid bit of local color in the life of some commuters is the tunnel which runs from Forty-second Street up as far as One Hundred and Fifty in the shade.

  11. The commuters are divided into two classes: going and coming.

  12. On my way home I meet the crowd going to the bridge, the commuters who have to catch their boat as well as business people and government employees who live in Nishantashe or Shishli, on the other side of the Golden Horn.

  13. An ignoble impulse led me to join the scurrying stampede of commuters towards the warmth and shelter of the waiting-room.

  14. When some of the commuters on the eight-three heard the news and started springin' their comic tricks on me, I pretended I didn't understand.

  15. Most of his spare time and all the money he could bone out of the commuters he spent in improvin' and decoratin' it.

  16. Nearly all the commuters had been touched by Danny for something or other that could be added to the shack.

  17. Confessing with your altogether out-of-date frankness that there are mosquitoes, a word usually dropped from the vocabulary of commuters and their wives, even though they live in Staten Island or New Jersey.

  18. The milkman did not come, neither did the long crispy French rolls, a New York breakfast institution for which the commuters confessedly have no substitute, and it was after nine before breakfast was served.

  19. It is all the fault of the Marathon Bird Club, which has offered all sorts of inducements to the fowls of the air to come and live in our suburb, quite forgetting that humble commuters have to live there, too.

  20. Sometimes I see on the faces of our commuters the unaccustomed agitation of thought.

  21. Marathon has come to a pretty pass, indeed, when the commuters are to be dispossessed in this way by a lot of birds, orioles and tomtits and yellow-bellied nuthatches.

  22. Whenever I observe a quartette of commuters at cards I regret that the hours I gave to mastering whist were not given instead to the study of Greek.

  23. Commuters discuss many interesting topics, including the collection of garbage.

  24. This has come home with peculiar force to the many, many thousands of commuters who use its suburban trains each day.

  25. From the several platforms of this station subways will pass under Michigan avenue, and so enable commuters to avoid the heavy automobile traffic of that great thoroughfare.

  26. For instance, we used to picket the railway terminals to console commuters who had just missed their trains.

  27. He was in that exuberant mood discernible in commuters unexpectedly spending an evening in town.

  28. But Long Island commuters are nurtured to a tough and perilous his, and I clambered the Alvina's side without dropping hat, stick, or any of my pocketful of manuscripts.

  29. Commuters the world over are a hardy, valorous race.

  30. I have in my pocket positive proofs that they did, and do, intend to spring their trap upon the unprotected commuters on the New York and New Haven Railroad.

  31. You don't see many of the commuters up here," Dicky remarked.

  32. There were not many passengers going out on the island, but scores of commuters were hurrying through the station on their way to their offices and other places of employment.

  33. Barberin' for commuters left him more or less time for such enterprises.

  34. Anyway, some of them smart Alec commuters who were kiddin' me so free yesterday must have worked up blisters of their own.

  35. And by the time I'd retrieved this bulky package from the express agent and stowed it inside, all the other commuters had boarded their various limousines and flivver taxis and cleared out.

  36. At the car's kitchen window lolls a young coloured boy in a chef's hat, surveying the files of proletarian commuters with a glorious calmness of scorn and superiority.

  37. Other more humble commuters stand in the vestibule, enjoying these little arguments.

  38. It was a Division composed chiefly of commuters that stormed the Hindenburg Stellung and purged the Argonne thickets with flame and steel.

  39. Some of our enterprising clients, who are not habitual commuters and who live in a state of single cussedness, might try it some time.

  40. Of Long Island commuters there are two classes: those who travel to Penn Station, those who travel to Brooklyn.

  41. We are speaking now of Long Island commuters, whom we know best; but commuters are the same wherever you find them.

  42. It comes from the crowd of commuters standing in front of the gate of what used to be the 5:56.

  43. All the other seats were won by commuters from Loose Valley, the next station above Lymedale.

  44. More commuters swung aboard the strip and crowded their space.

  45. Skirting knots of commuters they faced outward in a momentarily vacant slot for two along the edge of the fast moving lane.

  46. If few Commuters can approach the mileage record of this man there are many who do not hesitate at extra expenditures for their comfort.

  47. The mollified commuters are marching out.

  48. He finds his way to the showy railroad terminal, down the crowded concourse with a human stream of other Commuters to the 5:37.

  49. It slips through the suburban territory without halting--the nearby commuters are served with their papers and their mail by the early morning locals.

  50. Special trains for Commuters are no particular novelty.

  51. The superintendent's smile remains while a solemn-faced delegation of commuters files into his room.

  52. Then, after the Commuters in the East are safely home, another army is finding its way across the bay, and off to the north and the south of San Francisco.

  53. The great volume of Commuters who will flock to its station nightly, will be bound east, not west.

  54. A group of aristocratic Commuters living north of Boston in the district around Manchester have their private special into the North Station every summer morning.

  55. From both her North and South stations mighty armies of Commuters come and go until one wonders sometimes if any one really lives in Boston itself.

  56. He simply knew that there was a good crowd of Commuters who rode with him daily.

  57. The general passenger agent, who was a fellow both wise and solemn, talked with the general manager, and one day that little club of Commuters had a surprise.

  58. Commuters and tourists, most of the time I'd rather be a tourist.

  59. My commuters wouldn't rest till they got a parlourcar.

  60. In that chilly cavern she sat, dumbly watching the press of homeward commuters laden with parcels and papers.


  61. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "commuters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.