Sentence examples for our commuters from inspiring English sources

"I would be happy to assist to keep our commuters' rights intact instead of commuting like a zombie!" one wrote.

"Bethpage merchants were disappointed that our train station was not chosen as a stop for the Open," he said, "though our commuters were probably relieved".

"With this funding, Suffolk County would be able to protect the high quality of service afforded to our commuters and maintain the current level of bus fares," it said, adding that when the additional state aid becomes available, the county would roll back the fare increases.

A man on our commuter train announced that his wallet had been stolen and he was collecting money for a ticket home; he said he was about $2 short.

We picked up our commuter champagne — oil cans of beer in brown paper bags — from a stand in Penn Station that kept them on ice.

Many writers offer their insights into how we live our lives -- how we drive our S.U.V.'s, gab on our cellphones on our commuter trains, deal with e-mail spam and telemarketers calling during dinner.

Like two-thirds of the people on our commuter trains in the morning, we'll be frantically cramming in as much email, texting, or vanity-scrolling of our infinite, pointless Facebook newsfeeds as we possibly can before our final destination looms.

As a young boy growing up in Orange, N.J., in the 1930's, I was awed to watch Phoebe Snow and its predecessors pulled by powerful steam engines pound through on the middle track of our commuter station on the way to the Delaware Water Gap, the Lackawanna Valley of Pennsylvania and on into western New York State.

We are temporarily pausing our commuter service beginning this afternoon.

In fact those cars illustrate the main finding on our commuter list: Low- to mid-priced vehicles using hybrid or diesel power in four-cylinder engines are the best bets for drivers looking simply to get from A to B without a lot of distraction in between.

We, the caregivers, who are less traveled and are more like tourists to our commuter-like children, will simply have to explore this online world more and get over our fears of its strange meeting places and confusing language.