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.
  • What’s up with crime on the subway?
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Who doesn't love a clean subway tile?
    — Natasha Bazika, Martha Stewart, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Ride a bike, take the subway, or walk.
    — Brian Mann, NPR, 4 June 2026
  • No one needs to see my memes on the subway.
    — Perrie Samotin, Glamour, 26 Mar. 2026
  • When the subways are gone to dust, this will still be there.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Sit in a chair, lie on the couch, or even try it on the subway.
    — Hannah Dylan Pasternak, SELF, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Could a subway work for the old subway?
    — Sydney Franklin, Cincinnati Enquirer, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Were the subway posters in that same order last time?
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 19 Sep. 2025
  • My first kiss was on the same corner, in front of the subway.
    — Ilana Keller, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Shops are closed along the route, as are subway stations.
    — Eunice Yoon, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2025
  • What subway lines are getting new cars?
    — Riley Rourke, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Game night in New York starts on the subway.
    — Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 11 June 2026
  • The subway ran in the distance.
    — Mary Gaitskill, New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2026
  • And one of them slammed my face into the subway grates and knocked my tooth out.
    — Diane J. Cho, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
  • And one of them slammed my face into the subway grates and knocked my tooth out.
    — Diane J. Cho, PEOPLE, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Those neon green tones pop even more against the city’s gray streets and subway stations.
    — Christopher Claxton, Billboard, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The entrance to a subway could also be seen smashed in.
    — Mostafa Salem, CNN Money, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The same is true when you’re stuck in traffic or inside the subway.
    — Prakhar Khanna, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Davies has taken the commuter rail and subway for more than three decades.
    — Shirley Leung, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2022
  • Or choose subway tiles for a timeless look that never goes out of style.
    — Lee Wallender, The Spruce, 31 Jan. 2026
  • The subway platform was dingy; all the people on the train were strange.
    — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
  • Would the coats’ hems gather grime on a subway platform or catch in a taxi’s door?
    — Charlie Teasdale, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2023
  • They had even been evicted from their home, and counted coins to take the subway.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The man in the video then walks out of view of the camera and across the subway platform.
    — Rob Frehse, CNN, 7 June 2022
  • This is what is going on today, just on one subway car of this one train on this one track.
    — Big Think, 29 Jan. 2026
  • But it’s taken to the absurd of what a subway system could be like.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The house was far from a subway stop but had a spacious front porch that looked out onto a maple tree.
    — Caitlin Dickerson, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2026

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