How to Use subway in a Sentence
subway
noun- 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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The man in the video then walks out of view of the camera and across the subway platform.
—Rob Frehse, CNN, 7 June 2022
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My first kiss was on the same corner, in front of the subway.
—Ilana Keller, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2022
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The subway platform was dingy; all the people on the train were strange.
—Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
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The child’s death is now the fourth — and youngest — child to die this year by subway surfing.
—Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 17 Sep. 2024
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Major crime in the subways decreased more than 18% in the first three months of the year, Tisch said.
—Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 3 Apr. 2025
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The death, as Fox 11 reports, marks the 11th killing in the New York subway system this year.
—Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 10 Dec. 2022
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That might sound like a lot of legwork for a subway song.
—Quartz Staff, Quartz, 11 Oct. 2021
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This line opened in 2002 and was the city’s first new subway line in almost forty years.
—Ankit Mishra, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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Of course there are going to be a lot of Ghostface masks on the subway.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 8 Mar. 2023
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Frankie, Caleb, and Stubbs make it down to the subway just as the signal goes out and all hell breaks loose.
—Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 8 Aug. 2022
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Rides are free from the North Shore, so drivers can park there and then take the subway over.
—Ryan Deto, Axios, 12 Mar. 2025
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This was the first time in the last seven years that there have been no murders in the subway in the first three months of the year.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 3 Apr. 2025
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The city block is a half-mile walk from the nearest subway stop, which is the second-to-last stop from the end of the line.
—Devin Kelly, Longreads, 19 Jan. 2022
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Coke bought all the ad space in one of New York’s busiest subway stations.
—Greg Petro, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
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The same is true when you’re stuck in traffic or inside the subway.
—Prakhar Khanna, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
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New York man to be charged in the subway chokehold killing of Jordan Neely.
—Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2023
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It’s nudged people to ride the subway more, which helps reduce crime on the trains.
—Michael Venutolo-Mantovani, WIRED, 10 Mar. 2025
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The site is a few blocks from a Metro subway station slated to open in 2025.
—Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2022
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The team’s drones swooped through the subway tunnel and explored the platform.
—David Montgomery, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2021
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The Brazilian fan said people asked to snap photos with him on the subway ride to the game.
—Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 12 Sep. 2024
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By most measures, the subways are no more dangerous than the rest of the city.
—Brandon Del Pozo, New York Daily News, 15 Dec. 2024
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On the 25th, [my friends and I] were sleeping in the [underground] subway.
—Vogue, 2 Mar. 2022
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Would the coats’ hems gather grime on a subway platform or catch in a taxi’s door?
—Charlie Teasdale, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2023
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On nights when her boyfriend is unavailable, the boss or his son drives her the eight blocks to the subway stop.
—Han Ong, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
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Crime in the city's subway has skyrocketed in the first few months of 2022.
—Fox News, 2 June 2022
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The building was two blocks north of a subway stop and walkable to Central Park.
—Anna Fixsen, New York Times, 31 July 2025
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The proposal was published around the same time that the Cincinnati subway's construction was planned.
—Sydney Franklin, The Enquirer, 31 July 2025
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