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.
• New York man to be charged in the subway chokehold killing of Jordan Neely.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2023
• Would the coats’ hems gather grime on a subway platform or catch in a taxi’s door?
  — Charlie Teasdale, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2023
• Leah writes: My boyfriend, Matt, refers to subway lines by color.
  — John Hodgman, New York Times, 20 July 2023
• Here’s a great piece from this week: Who rides the subway in Los Angeles?
  — Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2023
• There was such a good feeling, like people high-fiving on the subway, that was the glue.
  — Erin Osmon, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• Like many, the 19-year-old began subway surfing in his mid-teens.
  — Joshua Needelman, Curbed, 16 Aug. 2023
• Men and women on the streets, subways, and elsewhere, in an opiate haze.
  — Margaux Anbouba, Vogue, 8 Dec. 2023
• Yeah, even Michael Myers was just standing there on the subway.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2023
• The rest of the 13-minute chronicles the process of shooting the video on the streets of New York, including a freestyle dance scene in a subway station.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 15 Mar. 2023
• Walking around set those five days on the subway was one of the funniest weeks of moviemaking.
  — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 13 Mar. 2023
• In Tokyo, for almost two months, the subways would be free for everybody.
  — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• Send the police, send in the Guard — many have come to believe that, regardless, the subway is going to be the subway.
  — Michael Wilson, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2024
• The building it was set in was so cavernous that two real subway cars used in one scene looked small.
  — Lisa Rosen, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• The people around us move awkwardly to dodge the stinky subway water.
  — Clio Chang, Curbed, 25 July 2023
• Tens of thousands of people arrived, many by subway and bike, to the park, which is on an island in the St. Lawrence River.
  — Emma Jacobs, NPR, 8 Apr. 2024
• He is known to the police department in the subway system, Kaplan said.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2023
• But on the public stage of a street, the subway, or a tree-shorn park, a mundane interaction can take on strange airs.
  — Nicole Acheampong, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2023
• The person sitting next to you on the subway, or in a cubicle at work - everyone has felt the pain of loss, or will.
  — Anderson Cooper, CBS News, 31 Dec. 2023
• And of course, among the vines, there were no subway windows or storefronts available in which to clock my reflection.
  — Eliza Dumais, Vogue, 13 Nov. 2023
• So far this year, three homicides have been reported in the New York City subway system.
  — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 29 Feb. 2024
• According to house lore, a group of young gay and trans Latinos would meet up at the subway station on Christopher Street.
  — Anne Branigin, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2023
• In New York, workers placed cast-iron mail tubes some 4 to 18 feet below the street, running the tracks on top of the subway in some spots and beneath it in others.
  — Vanessa Armstrong, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Dec. 2023
• Streets are crowded and subway stations are even more packed than usual.
  — Time, 17 Aug. 2023
• Over the next 49 years, New York’s subway system became one of the most sophisticated and sprawling in the world.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 1 Sep. 2023
• Chile’s carabineros used tear gas to expel people from the subway stations.
  — Patrick Iber, The New Republic, 15 May 2023
• On top of caring for dozens of adoptable cats, Anne Levin once raised an orphaned baby subway rat.
  — Abby Ellin, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2023
• The New York City subway has proven to be an equally effective background as a predesigned set.
  — Skylar Mitchell, Essence, 24 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024