: 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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Every subway car is like a miracle of human diversity.
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Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 12 June 2025
Urban centers like Barcelona and New York City—and even indoor spaces like high-rises and subway tunnels—are particularly prone to GPS disruptions.
—Mariam Sorond, Forbes.com, 11 June 2025
The overwhelming majority of subway surfers are teenagers.
—Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 11 June 2025
Food vendors sizzled meats at vendor stalls and kept juices in massive, unlabeled canisters under the gritty subway underpass – devoid of any labels or apparent sanitation or health and safety standards.
—Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 9 June 2025
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Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 12 June 2025
Urban centers like Barcelona and New York City—and even indoor spaces like high-rises and subway tunnels—are particularly prone to GPS disruptions.
—Mariam Sorond, Forbes.com, 11 June 2025
The overwhelming majority of subway surfers are teenagers.
—Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 11 June 2025
Food vendors sizzled meats at vendor stalls and kept juices in massive, unlabeled canisters under the gritty subway underpass – devoid of any labels or apparent sanitation or health and safety standards.
—Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 9 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for subway
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“Subway.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/subway. Accessed 18 Jun. 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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