How To Use Commute In A Sentence

Apart from causing public nuisance and inconvenience to the commuters this also leads to road accidents.
Caltrain contracts with Amtrak to operate the commuter rail line, which accommodates 26, 000 daily riders.
Since my parents both commuted a long way from home, long before the word "playdate" ever existed, I spent most afternoons running from house to house, soaking up the sounds, smells and tastes. Jessica Seinfeld: Reclaiming Family Food
Instead of the grim faces of commuters on their way into work, people were bleary-eyed but smiling for no particular reason.
In other words, simultaneous measurements can only be mutually compatible for observables corresponding to operators that commute with each other.

The building supports environmentally minded commuters by providing showers for bicyclers and accommodating employees who wish to take the bus.
One of the biggest dangers to commuters at the time was the constant threat of pickpockets and other petty thieves preying upon unsuspecting victims.
He was interested in the structure of rings of linear operators and realized that the central idempotents, that is, the operators E that commuted with all other operators in the ring under multiplication (that is, EL = LE for all L in the ring) and which were idempotent under multiplication The Algebra of Logic Tradition
Foster parents should be willing to commute, be bilingual and have dual nationality.
That means Schwarzenegger's earnings from a career as a Hollywood megastar, which allowed him to forgo a salary as governor and commute by private jet to Sacramento, likely will be evenly divided with his estranged wife. Maria Shriver files to divorce Arnold Schwarzenegger
If you're a regular rail user or commuter, consider an annual season ticket. The Sun
We retool each year just to change the design of cars… surely we can do the same, albeit on a grander scale, to shift more commuters to public transit.
Fed-up rail commuters have been given a message of hope from fellow travellers on Merseyside.
He sells records by the lorry load - and commuters in the capital are falling over buskers on every street corner.
More early morning rain and mist is also on the way for commuters as they travel to work the following morning.
The governor commuted the prisoner's sentence of death to one of life imprisonment.
In particular, many people have moved to the Wirral peninsula and they commute to Liverpool through the Mersey tunnel or by ferry.
She was given a commuted sentence.
If only the same could be said for your average commute. Times, Sunday Times
It's no wonder that their residents often tolerate extreme commutes in order to find affordable housing, " it said.
there is standing room only on the high-speed commute
Much of south-east Queensland has become a carpark, almost, during commuter hours, and north-east New South Wales is not much better.
A significant number of people commute daily to London, offset by commuters into Brighton and Hove from the surrounding county.
Many commuters are forced to stand, tightly packed in, like sardines.
The fields between the villages of north London were filled with scaffolding for buildings to house a new breed of commuter. Times, Sunday Times
Not advisable for heavily laden commuters. Times, Sunday Times
Teachers are so eager to work there some of those who were hired willingly make a daily commute of nearly four hours to come to work.
Ehrlich did try to gain commuter support by calling MARC and Metro "broken," but did not much lay out a plan for improvement. Ehrlich vs. O'Malley -- Maryland governor debate liveblog
Forty per cent more seats will be provided during the morning peak for commuters into London by making all trains eight-car and transferring extra stock to the line.
Now the figures in Canada, certainly of the conduct of released convicted murderers whose sentences have been commuted is not as accurate. The Death PenaltyFor and Against
Figuring the cost of the patrol car, the patrolman's time and the overall distance covered, the cost per mile for her commute is astonishing. Sound Politics: What should Mrs. Gregoire cut?
I guess I'd better get this book so I can enrich my life while livening up my daily commute!
At present he is a research fellow in Cambridge while his girlfriend lives in Germany, ‘which is a long commute’.
A nationwide group economist said the society thought house prices in London and its surrounding commuter belt were still rising at an unsustainable rate, and he predicted weaker price growth in these areas next year.
Earlier this year, the outgoing governor of Illinois commuted the sentences of all 167 inmates on the state's death row.
But many Japanese suffer from the distances they commute to work.
In 2007 tax concessions for commuters will be slashed and the tax-free allowance for both married and single persons will be cut.
Local workers will not want to do a big shop before they commute home. Times, Sunday Times
In the case of most corporate pension plans, members can commute part of their pension for a lump sum, which may well be tax-free.
Bob, who works in marketing, wanted a shorter commute to his office.
Any improvements we introduce would clearly need to deliver value for money but we are excited about the potential benefits there could be for the London commuter. Computing
Commuters were given scant or incorrect information regarding the delays. Times, Sunday Times
Trade isn't exactly brisk, although there's a handful of regular commuters and up to 100 ramblers on good days, so ferrymen traditionally find something else to do. Britain's Best Views: the Mersey ferry, Liverpool
Some states also limit the governor's power to commute sentences and pardon convicted criminals.
Estrada's move to soften his stand on capital punishment followed his announcement that he has commuted death sentences to life terms for over 100 convicts.
The two terms in the summand of H are identical (factors commute) and may be summed. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
Traffic congestion during peak commute hours is terrible.
All these town councilmen see is the $$ at the beginning. jmaster306: Most of the new families commute the 30-50 miles to the city. downstairs: They don't want bars, theaters, and parks right next door to their houses. urger: Instead of a independent entity the Levitt influence suburb (which for those who aren't students of urban planning is all of them) are parasites that drain cities. Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
Thus it's easier to regain the high ground by laughing or sneering, or complaining about art getting in the way of commuters.
They've stood in long lines to get on commuter trains, they have crowded on to ferries, they've carpooled with strangers.
Teams are teaching commuters to form queues at bus stops. Times, Sunday Times
The rivers of commuters streaming and bobbing down boulevards are long gone. Times, Sunday Times
• He finds driving a car "deadening," so he takes a bus to work from his home, reading or working on his laptop during the commute. Taking on Google by Learning From Ants
One of the gentry he used to ferry about, a decent cove who always treated him civilly, writes letters and the sentence is commuted to transportation.
Did you hear a whimper from the unions on behalf of commuters? The Sun
The boss of a train down there is the conductor del tren; a commuter is a commutador; switch is used both in its American railroad sense and to indicate the electrical device; slip, dock and wharf (the last pronounced guÿ; fay) are in daily use; so is socket (electrical), though it is pronounced sokÿ; ytay; so are poker and many of the terms appertaining to the game. Appendix 2. Non-English Dialects in America. 3. Spanish
There were still narked at what the weather had done to their tracks and overhead cables and were holding up the commuters.
Train companies who put the daily commute out of reach, payday loan companies who force people into unpayable debt. Times, Sunday Times
Jordanian jailed for killing sister over mobile calls AMMAN, Feb 22, 2010 (AFP) - A Jordanian on death row for the murder of his married sister who used her mobile too often in an apparent "honour killing" has had his term commuted to 10 years in jail, a judicial official said Monday. Arab Times Kuwait English Daily
There is some indication that these jobs are being filled by students and suburban commuters.
Both commuters and transporters deserve a fair deal.
These connect telecommuters, business travelers and off-site employees to a company's corporate network providing secure transparent access to business applications.
We've built superhighways, which function as parking lots at commuter time.
Armed cops hunting the suspect stormed a packed commuter train. The Sun
I didn't drive 100s of thousands of miles per year NoB, but I did drive from North San Diego to LA daily for five years and did a daily circle of most all of the freeways in Houston for a period of time, commuted from Alameda, Marin, and San Mateo counties to The City for a period of years, and commuted from the outskirts of Sacramento to Tahoe or Grass Valley four days a week for a couple of years. Drivers in Mexico
While commuters have to take a more circuitous route, it eases traffic congestion and flow.
The main thing recommending the commuter village of Uplawmoor is its proximity to Glasgow.
Priority projects are double-decker commuter trains and more money for the West Coast line.
Most of those who pass it will do so habitually: commuters going in and out of the city, commercial drivers doing regular runs from one depot or customer to another.
Today thousands of commuters were delayed for up to 35 minutes as trains ran behind schedule.
Avoid long commutes; make sure your hall of residence is close to your school. Times, Sunday Times
Here, three Santas forego their sleighs in favor of an underground commute.
Anyone using ferries to commute or travel on business is going to want to cut down the time involved and will choose the new fast ferries in preference to the older slower vessels.
Commuters are attracted to areas where house prices are still relatively low and the road is straight.
Of course, you have to keep in mind that for most people, 30 minutes is the perfect amount of time to allot for our commute, because usually, that's exactly the amount of time the drive uptown would take.
The 108.9-km stretch will provide commuters an easy exit from the city.
There has also been a considerable investment in commuter trains and light railway rapid-transit systems to ease congestion on roads and pollution.
I can't believe Obama is charged with ngegative campaigning when he calls attention to the bogus nature of this gas tax reprieve, which would cost $9 Billion, and put pennies in commuter's pockets, throw thousands of highway construction workers out of work, and be paid back by some further bogus tapping of the oil industry, which legislation would be immediately vetoed by Bush. Obama camp out with new gas tax ad, Clinton camp fires back
homeward-bound commuters
Of all the things I did not expect to be a factor in my morning commute, I woke to the thickest blanket of fog ever.
By taking the travel mode and work time as the delamination control variable, it is feasible for us to analysis the diversity about the commuter departure time selection behavior.
Commuter airlines fly to out-of-the-way places. And business travelers are the ones who go to those locations.
And it is weird to get off a boring old commuter train to be faced on the platform with a vast embonpoint, half swathed in shiny scarlet shantung silk, half exposed, like being attacked by a giant blancmange with strawberries. Simon Hoggart's week: Olympic chiefs have built a Brigadoon for the rich
Thanks to the jammed system, commuters frequently stand on the footboard with the doors left dangerously open.
However, Slattery believes that due to roadwork delays, many people are not sticking the commute.
Garrison is a small town in a part of the Hudson Valley fast being colonized by weekenders and even some commuters to the city.
It seemed a pretty long way for Christian to commute every day. THE EXECUTION
Tuesday morning will be inexplicably cold, and your commute will be filled with snot-nosed morons heading back to school.
Ottawa Canadians are so hardy that some commuters skied to work when public transport workers in the capital went on strike recently. Times, Sunday Times
The company's helpline was swamped with calls as commuters and family members tried to find out details of the incident. Times, Sunday Times
Off the top of my head the word commuter is a good example . Factoid of the Day No 1
Many Web sites and mobile applications now help commuters, shoppers, and tourists in cities all over the world be virtuously selfish and take advantage of their transit options.
The marchers distributed handbills to onlookers, pedestrians, commuters and motorists inviting them to the crusade at sites nearest to their homes.
Long distance rail commuters are not being held to ransom. Times, Sunday Times
Unfortunately, I didn't get to read it on my commute uptown today because I left it in the living room by accident.
She commutes from Oxford to London every day.
There, the fragmentation and interspersion of wooded mountain acreage with homes to accommodate the growing numbers of commuters who work in the District of Columbia and northern Virginia is threatening the solitude and integrity of the nearby Appalachian Trail. posted by John L. Trapp at In Search of Tranquility
Commuters faced more misery on Thursday after a train was derailed just outside Bedford.
You could be the envy of your fellow commuter if you whip out your Sudoku on the tube and complete the grid in double quick time.
I would have liked to tell you in person that I have found your way of expressing your thoughts on the future of our profession and knowledge management to be inspirational and that I read "out front with stephan abram" on the bus during my commute to my first professional library job- just to soak up your vision and boost my confidence with your bravado and encouragement. Stephen's Lighthouse: SLA Western Canada Chapter
The glorious uncertainties of the city bus services afford ample time for reflection and retrospection for commuters at the bus stops, it is averred.
Now aged 42, he lives in Carlow, plays golf off a handicap of 13, and commutes in his Jaguar every day to his office in ParkWest.
The tents are on the outside and music lovers commute to the stages and the shops. Times, Sunday Times
The bus driver pulled over to get the commuters to settle down.
Commuters were left stranded during morning peak hours at some township zones while some had to hike to work.
A death sentence was commuted to life in prison, then cut to ten years.
IT looks scarily like a man poised to jump from a building - and has shocked commuters around London. The Sun
AL GOODMAN, CNN MADRID BUREAU CHIEF (voice-over): Like London this morning, commuters in Madrid had no warning last year. CNN Transcript Jul 8, 2005
Models ranged from fold-up commuter bikes to electrically assisted bikes, from the family-sized four-seater ZEM bike to the Radius recumbent bike, where the cyclist lies back to pedal.
The key is to look for good mainline commuter services. Times, Sunday Times
If you are reading this during your morning commute, look around the carriage. Times, Sunday Times
His name is Francois "Frank" Pluviose, a 42-year-old New York City cabdriver who commutes to work each week from Reading, Pennsylvania -- a two and a half hour bus ride -- and he is totally immune to the disease of cynicism that has managed to infect so much of our politics for too many years. Mike Barnicle: Driving Through History
I could faintly hear the distant rumble of commuter traffic from my bedroom - a reminder of what I had temporarily escaped.
My husband and I moved from Surrey six months ago after ten years in a desirable but busy commuter belt.
Commuters said they wanted a quiet journey home rather than listening to advertising commercials and news broadcasts.
I feel sorry for their staff who now have to commute a lot further or worse still look for new employment.
Nine of the areas that made it into the top ten were within the London commuter belt. The Sun
The ongoing investigation by police and other related agencies is unveiling, as expected, shocking facts about our insensibility to safety measures at the mass-transit system used by millions of commuters every day.
She accidentally stepped on his foot on a crowded commuter train.
The goal is to make it easier for commuters to get from downtown Sacramento to the city of Folsom.
He may not be aware that Baildon commuters are campaigning for a direct service to Leeds.
The commuter belt needn't mean soulless suburbia. Times, Sunday Times
They work different shifts; each commutes 60 miles a day.
The system provides commuters with daily traffic forecasts on their smartphone or computer to provide the best route to work. The Sun
Higher density means fewer long commutes, which helps gridlock problems and is good for the environment.
On the subway, commuters wore sombre expressions they would wear on any such Friday.
Rail chaos hit commuters early yesterday morning with delays of up to 40 minutes.
As the commuter plane in the cartoon plunges downward, the fat passenger testily refuses to acknowledge her guilt in misleading the airline about her weight.
Many commuters are forced to stand, tightly packed in, like sardines.
Do you want to leave families with children little option but to commute from the Eastside, or more suburban areas of Seattle proper? sarah68 Homeless Group Says It Will Protest Salmon Bake « PubliCola
In the Edwardian era, with company revenues falling, the companies began to cultivate the suburban commuter.
As I commute to and from work along the parkways and interstates, I place my trust in tens of thousands of my fellow Pittsburghers even though I do not even know their names.
Removable hard disk drive architecture offers efficiency, speed, economy, security, and convenience for multi-system users, telecommuters, and the convergence technology industry.
We have tried carpooling, vanpooling, buses, commuter and intercity trains, even bike paths-and we are about to start barging freight on Long Island Sound.
So-called commuter planes that carry up to 150 passengers whisper rather than roar because they use the latest propeller technology.
His sentence was commuted from death to life imprisonment.
Cheney seems to fear that if our system of justice works, he could be in for some serious, uncommuted jail time. OpEdNews - Quicklink: Could Dick Cheney Go to Prison? (By Ray McGovern, Consortium News)
Miners commute between the mines and their housing estates on weekdays.
But millions of others make that daily commute to the city from their 5,000-square-foot mini-mansions in the "slurbs," deterred, at the moment, only by traffic and the time it takes to get home.
Many do at least part of their jobs at home or count work done on laptops as they commute. The Sun
The nearly completed four-lane route will help shorten the commute to the remote site, roughly 24 miles northeast of downtown.
The diagram below shows how demand for a commuter train service typically varies during the day.
Afternoons are a nightmare for commuters standing in serpentine queues at the rear entrance of the City Railway Station.
From Street Tech: "This guy, Ravi Jain, is shooting a weekly video blog from the driver's seat of his car during his daily commutes between Jamaica Plains and Allston, MA (or five hours of" studio time, "as he puts it). - Boing Boing
There even was a couple of Bombardier passenger train cars, between a boxcar and a flatcar, for use in St. Louis' new commuter rail system, not to be confused with its light rail system.
For one thing, during their morning and evening commutes, people switch on a kind of autopilot.
But of course they did not circulate beyond the commuter belt, so they failed to qualify as nationals on that ground.
Services on city, suburban and commuter routes will terminate earlier than normal.
But most of the time, I just feel extremely grateful that it works for me, because my commute is AWESOME! anne Why Don’t More Women Ride? « PubliCola
Slovakia said his sentence will be commuted to life in jail if he is extradited. The Sun
Most of the head tenants and some of the under tenants held on condition of knight service, later commuted into a money payment in lieu of service called scutage.
It is just not realistic to expect urban workers to commute long distances on a daily basis to reach their place of work.
Personally, I love to drive, so the commute is actually part of my leisure time. Matthew Yglesias » Housing and Transportation
A: Commuter miles are generally easier on a car than stop-and-go driving on short errands. Matching the 1996 Honda Odyssey
Moreover the council additionally benefits from the Respark schemes which push commuters and visitors into the council car parks.
This Urban PEDALING series focuses on the city-centric and eco-conscious commuter, the hip fixie pedaler with his underground eateries, Warming the Cockles: Living, Breathing, Shopping
Yet its very banality is also somehow appropriate - for this war will be won or lost not in some grand showdown but in a trillion tiny everyday encounters, like those of commuters pouring off a suburban train. The madrid agenda
Lagos - The increases in the fares paid by passengers on the Lagos Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) have continued to generate controversy, with many commuters lamenting what they termed insensitivity on the part of the operators. AllAfrica News: Latest
Thousands of commuters were hit by a ‘no warning’ lightning strike by 6,000 Greater Manchester busmen.
One logical fix to this geographical mis-match is for inner-city blacks to commute out from the ghettos to the suburbs.
Alternative 5 also needs a funded program to provide bus routes, pedestrian improvements, and bicycle improvements so that we can use our expanding investments in commuter rail, light rail, and regional and local transit more efficiently. Regional Transportation Plan Pt. 2, in which I Complain a Little « PubliCola
I would like to offer a variant definition and suggest that metonyms, like commuters, do not always make their connections.
I ride both a bus and a subway on my daily commute, and I assure you that the subway is more comfortable, even though the bus rides on its own busway. Matthew Yglesias » Requests Thread
I know which paving stone is loose and conceals a puddle, ready to squirt up at unsuspecting commuters.
A death sentence was commuted to life in prison, then cut to ten years.
I then wondered whether, if a sniper starting shooting into the crowd, I would be able to find adequate cover from the fusillade of bullets which would be raining down upon the commuters and workers crossing the road.
I might have to pack up for the big commute to the TV downstairs so I can watch it on cable.
In the Edwardian era, with company revenues falling, the companies began to cultivate the suburban commuter.
So, starting in January, commuters in will be treated to this rather warm, inobtrusive message the photo above is a mock-up. Nunc Scio » Blog Archive » All aboard the atheist bus!
He commuted daily between London and Surrey.
Commuters travelling on London Underground services last night were facing further disruption in the wake of the terror attacks and security scares.
Where the hell are all the damned commuters when you need them?
On January 11, the Illinois Governor commuted the death sentences of all of the state's 167 death row prisoners, reducing the majority of them to life in prison.
It is too far west for London commuters, but a lot of buyers from the capital like to have weekend homes here. Times, Sunday Times
It struck me this week, as I watched news footage of weary London rail commuters moaning about fares going up, what quite incredible value a railcard is compared to a car.
Not so on the morning commute. Times, Sunday Times
Her batting average there: five stays of execution, one commuted to life in prison, and two men freed completely.
One Monday morning I set off on my daily commute to work.
With the vast majority of suburban commuters unable to get to New York, brokerage firms were operating with skeleton staffs.
He has even helped his wife, who works at a Georgetown law firm, devise a kayak commuter route on heavy traffic days. Below The Beltway
From either of them, it's a short commute into town. Times, Sunday Times
The Easter long weekend may end on a sour note for some commuters who use public transit.
The square in question lies at the centre of a 190 million commuter walkway in the central business district. Times, Sunday Times
‘I commute in a three-quarter-tonne capacity Chevrolet Silverado HD,’ he swanked in his latest book.
I sat somewhat nervously on a hard and threadbare seat in a tatty compartment, watching the last of the commuters run towards it and jump on.
If road construction goes on solely at night more truck traffic will take place during the day, further slowing their commutes.
He said the Council wanted to maximise the use of the park and ride buses and now hoped the public would fully support the service which would be convenient and easily accessible to visitors and commuters alike.
Traffic on the commute is virtually non-existent. Times, Sunday Times
This will defeat the object of a by-pass which will soon become full with short distance commuters.
Its offering for the urban commuter is just slightly less rugged. The Folding Bike Goes Cool
Flooding, mudslides and fallen trees cut several main highways into Wellington to a single lane in places, snarling commuter traffic and forcing it to a crawl, he said.
Industry insiders say some companies have begun to build more man-days into project budgets because of commuter crawl.
Public transportation remains most common in big cities where it is simply not possible to get along without buses, streetcars, subways and commuter trains.
An Althouse-favored convex mirror, viewing rearwards on today's bicycle commute. Did you know I have the BhTV "safety tip of the day"?
The action will cause particular disruption to commuters returning to work on Tuesday after the bank holiday. Times, Sunday Times
So setting aside for now any and all skepticism of the polymer's ability to significantly mitigate some future species-ending plague, might we expect biocidal fountains to proliferate soon: like CCTV cameras, littering your daily commute, and misting you from the moment you exit your house till you finally settle down on your office chair? Archive 2006-12-01
For the unwearying biographer of Vladimir Nabokov, gathering his subject's documentary remains meant a commute to Montreux, Switzerland, and to Cornell University, from his home in Auckland, New Zealand.
The upside of this convenance is that commuters accept a modern, reliable approach of transport, they accumulate beside of the latest technology and their cartage seldom, if ever, crave additional parts. Auto Parts, The Pros and Cons
These obligations were initially rendered in kind, in terms of labor or provisions, but were gradually commuted to cash contributions.
In the middle of all these bureaucratic doings, the hapless bus commuters suddenly find themselves shelterless from the elements during their wait for the erratic city buses.

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