straphanger

"My God," said a straphanger who found the subway abandoned.

But the type is so tiny that only the most searching straphanger can read it.

Straphanger twisted his working smile into position and turned back to the Pope.

My 5-year-old son, an experienced straphanger, turned to me and asked, "Is this the local line?"

She added that the straphanger on the far right, with his brushes and palette, was probably the artist himself.

He turned a large red eye on Straphanger.

A film was made in 1922 called The Straphanger.

Straphanger hitched his smile in place with an effort.

At rush hour, with a needed number of heavy books in my bag, I cannot help but bump up against a fellow straphanger.

Every straphanger who stands during rush hour, for example, is entitled to three square feet of room under the system's own guidelines.

At the zoo, the alligator dropped off the straphanger and disappeared into the crowd.

The difficulties will be obvious to any straphanger.

That long history of frustration softened the views of at least one straphanger yesterday.

He spoke up, sometimes sternly, for the straphanger and the signal repairman alike.

Straphanger rubbed his hands together, a speculative gleam in his eye.

He fixed an eye on Ambassador Straphanger as the senior diplomat came up.

"Why, ah, it must have been a mistake-" Straphanger started.

Straphanger inquired in a tone of synthetic diplomatic interest.

Then he reconsidered, like a good straphanger.

He quotes John Travolta while commuting as a straphanger.

It's enough to make a straphanger ponder his mortality, the state of the world, the fate of the universe itself.

How does that affect you, beleaguered straphanger?

CALL it a small victory for the beleaguered straphanger.

Alternatively, "straphanger(s)" may refer to the easy targets of pick pockets on crowded public transportation.

Straphanger said in a relieved tone.