elevated trains

Example Sentences

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In Thailand, an advertising spree is visible from small screens inside elevated trains in the capital Bangkok to massive billboards in provincial towns.

From Reuters • Sep. 19, 2023

When Anna was 7, the family moved to Brooklyn, where she slept on a parlor couch with elevated trains pounding past the window and her mismatched parents battled endlessly.

From New York Times • Apr. 13, 2016

Collet-Serra was especially attracted to the city's bustling elevated trains and uses their disruptive noise to keep audiences off-balance.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2015

Given permission - make that a mandate - to chew scenery, Plummer is misty-eyed one minute, regal the next, and full of Borscht-belt shtick whenever more elevated trains of thought evade him.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 14, 2012

“Or an L, elevated trains like in Chicago,” Jay tells a skeptical Kelvin.

From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes