: 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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Nina Moskowitz, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 Mar. 2026
What subway lines are getting new cars?
—Riley Rourke, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2026
Police released images Tuesday of a man wanted for shoving a good Samaritan onto the tracks at a Manhattan subway station.
—Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 18 Mar. 2026
The violent earnestness is like a speaker-phone therapy session on a crowded subway.
—Samuel Hyland, Pitchfork, 17 Mar. 2026
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“Subway.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/subway. Accessed 23 Mar. 2026.
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subway
noun
sub·way
ˈsəb-ˌwā 
1
: an underground passage
2
: a usually electric underground railway
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