: 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.
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In car ride requests with the windows down, in a split pair of wired headphones on the subway home.
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Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 22 May 2025
The buses and subways are run by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which is controlled by the governor.
—Dean Chang, New York Times, 20 May 2025
In a new subway project in Brisbane, Australia, all contractors followed unified modeling standards to build an interactive virtual environment.
—Kathleen Kewley, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
Lee makes the action more propulsive by staging it against the backdrop of Puerto Rican Day celebrations, with hundreds dancing to a live performance by Latin music great Eddie Palmieri and his orchestra, blocking access to a strategic subway stop.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 19 May 2025
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Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 22 May 2025
The buses and subways are run by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which is controlled by the governor.
—Dean Chang, New York Times, 20 May 2025
In a new subway project in Brisbane, Australia, all contractors followed unified modeling standards to build an interactive virtual environment.
—Kathleen Kewley, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
Lee makes the action more propulsive by staging it against the backdrop of Puerto Rican Day celebrations, with hundreds dancing to a live performance by Latin music great Eddie Palmieri and his orchestra, blocking access to a strategic subway stop.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 19 May 2025
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“Subway.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/subway. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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subway
noun
sub·way
ˈsəb-ˌwā 
1
: an underground passage
2
: a usually electric underground railway
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