How to Use Underground Railroad in a Sentence

Underground Railroad

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• The Underground Railroad is more of a movement than a path.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 9 Feb. 2024
• What to learn more about the Underground Railroad and see it through the eyes of people like Thornton and Lucie?
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 9 Feb. 2024
• It is also rumored to have served as a stop on the Underground Railroad.
  — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 11 Aug. 2023
• In addition, according to local lore, the cave was the second-to-last-stop on the Underground Railroad.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 2 Oct. 2023
• The Underground Railroad used quilt codes to send secret messages.
  — al, 6 Feb. 2023
• This was a comforting thought to slaves, who also used the song as a literal roadmap for escape by way of the Underground Railroad.
  — Outside Online, 5 Mar. 2025
• The tunnel entrance is also believed to have been one of the various outlets for the Underground Railroad.
  — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 5 July 2023
• Diemer explores the life of one of the few people who actually worked, as opposed to volunteered, for the Underground Railroad.
  — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 10 Jan. 2025
• Turner is always on the lookout for a connection, a story on the Underground Railroad.
  — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 14 Sep. 2023
• And in the 1800s, churches served as vital links in the Underground Railroad that helped enslaved people elude authorities and migrate to free states.
  — Bill Chappell, NPR, 26 Jan. 2025
• Tubman returned to Maryland at least 13 times to rescue as many as 70 enslaved people through the Underground Railroad.
  — Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 12 Nov. 2024
• Bounties were placed on his head and assassination attempts were made against him and his family in response to his work on the Underground Railroad.
  — TIME, 2 Dec. 2024
• Cincinnati has a rich Underground Railroad history, and some Glendale residents think their village played a key role in it.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 16 June 2024
• Northside was also known as a safe haven for Underground Railroad travelers.
  — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 26 Dec. 2022
• This is the Underground Railroad’s multiperson memoir, with all the power and gravitas of an epic poem.
  — Kai Thomas, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2023
• What if the Underground Railroad’s most famous conductor dropped an album?
  — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2025
• Her bravery helped many people escape slavery through the Underground Railroad.
  — Daniel Wine, CNN, 9 Mar. 2025
• Over the decades their rustic dwelling continued to rub against history, as a site of bloodshed in the colonial wars against Native Americans, and later as a station on the Underground Railroad.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2023
• Tubman’s relationship with entities of the natural world was central to her work on the Underground Railroad.
  — Tiya Miles, Washington Post, 16 June 2024
• Catch up fast: Researchers have in recent years documented more than a dozen Underground Railroad conductors and freedom seekers who are buried there.
  — Jason Clayworth, Axios, 28 Feb. 2025
• The overhead set piece also features patterns found on quilts hung outside houses, quietly marking them as stations of the Underground Railroad.
  — Naveen Kumar, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2024
• William Lambert, a pivotal organizer of Detroit's role in the Underground Railroad, helped free thousands of enslaved people.
  — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 22 Mar. 2024
• This incredible movie tells the awe-inspiring and harrowing story of Harriet Tubman and her many journeys back and forth on the Underground Railroad.
  — Chaise Sanders, Country Living, 5 Feb. 2023
• Nathan was posthumously honored by the National Underground Railroad Network in 2012 for his efforts.
  — Detroit Free Press, 2 Mar. 2024
• Among those buried here: Underground Railroad conductors.
  — Martha Teichner, CBS News, 9 July 2023
• Guiding their efforts is a dedicated pastor in South Korea with extensive contacts in the Underground Railroad for defectors, plus his own scars from years of this hazardous work.
  — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• The Underground Railroad ran straight through Philadelphia.
  — Andrew Diemer, Time, 13 Jan. 2023
• This has long been Operation Underground Railroad’s ethos.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 24 Mar. 2022
• The real Ballard hasn’t claimed to do anything quite like that, but the film ends with a montage of clips from sting operations his group, Operation Underground Railroad, actually conducted in the country.
  — Herb Scribner and Will Sommer, Anchorage Daily News, 8 July 2023
• One of our partners is based in a rural location in a former Underground Railroad safe house, surrounded by mounds constructed by Native Americans.
  — Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 16 Dec. 2024