Thesaurus results for SUBWAY

subway

noun

as in tunnel

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Recent Examples of subway The cleanup of the Great Molasses Flood took weeks, and, for months, everywhere that anyone had tracked molasses, including underground subway platforms, was still tacky. —

Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 18 May 2026 Commuters in New York City’s suburbs navigated a gauntlet of car, bus and subway routes to get to work Monday after a strike on the Long Island Rail Road that shut down the nation’s busiest commuter rail system entered its third day. —

ABC News, 18 May 2026 In advance of the first LIRR labor strike since 1994, the MTA mapped out emergency transit alternatives, including free shuttle buses from seven locations in Long Island to two subway stations in Queens and additional subway service. —

Corky Siemaszko, NBC news, 18 May 2026 As the creator and host of the viral social media series Subway Takes, Rahma invites celebrities, comedians and cultural figures onto the New York City subway for candid, fast-moving discussions that often feel more spontaneous than traditional interviews. —

Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 16 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for subway

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Already, Elon Musk’s Boring Company has been selected to build what could be a network of tunnels through which electric vehicles would shuttle resort visitors from place to place.

— Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 May 2026
Then Surge zipped through a tunnel and pranced around the ring.

— Ross Mantle, New York Times, 21 May 2026