: an underground way: such as
a
: a passage under a street (as for pedestrians, power cables, or water or gas mains)
b
: a usually electric underground railway
c
subway
intransitive verb
Examples of subway in a Sentence
I took the subway to midtown.
No one on the subway seemed to mind how crowded it was.
I've been on both the New York subway and the Underground in London.
Recent Examples on the Web
More rain fell in a four-hour period Tuesday in Canada’s largest city than Toronto’s average rainfall for the month of July, submerging city streets, shuttering highways and subway stations, and leaving tens of thousands of people without power.
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Lex Harvey, CNN, 17 July 2024
The announcement came after flooding impacted the city’s subway system earlier this week.
—Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 17 July 2024
But upon closer inspection, some of its sharpest details come into clearer view: The subway tiles seen extend throughout the entire cavernous space, while not one but two minimal chandeliers are hung akimbo.
—Madeleine Luckel, Architectural Digest, 16 July 2024
His grandfather, who migrated from Tunisia to Belleville in 1956, opened the butcher shop just outside the subway station by a busy street corner where young men now hawk black-market cartons of cigarettes for cash.
—Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2024
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Lex Harvey, CNN, 17 July 2024
The announcement came after flooding impacted the city’s subway system earlier this week.
—Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 17 July 2024
But upon closer inspection, some of its sharpest details come into clearer view: The subway tiles seen extend throughout the entire cavernous space, while not one but two minimal chandeliers are hung akimbo.
—Madeleine Luckel, Architectural Digest, 16 July 2024
His grandfather, who migrated from Tunisia to Belleville in 1956, opened the butcher shop just outside the subway station by a busy street corner where young men now hawk black-market cartons of cigarettes for cash.
—Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2024
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“Subway.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/subway. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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subway
noun
sub·way
ˈsəb-ˌwā 
1
: an underground passage
2
: a usually electric underground railway
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