How to Use straphanger in a Sentence

straphanger

noun
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  • The straphanger suffered bruising and swelling to his face.
    — Katherine Lam, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2018
  • But they weren't told the band's singer and lead guitarist would be among their fellow straphangers.
    — Scott Roxborough, Billboard, 6 Dec. 2017
  • Straphangers also issues year-end top-ten worst and best lists.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • And now, see: the New York City subway system, where a Friday morning downpour created some, er, soggy conditions for exasperated straphangers.
    — Martine Powers, Washington Post, 7 July 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
  • 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
  • Those officers will be tasked with building relationships with Metropolitan Transportation Authority employees and straphangers by riding the subways and patrolling stations.
    — Zolan Kanno-Youngs, WSJ, 12 Apr. 2018

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