How to Use Underground Railroad in a Sentence

Underground Railroad

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• The Underground Railroad is more of a movement than a path.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 9 Feb. 2024
• What to learn more about the Underground Railroad and see it through the eyes of people like Thornton and Lucie?
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 9 Feb. 2024
• It is also rumored to have served as a stop on the Underground Railroad.
  — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 11 Aug. 2023
• In addition, according to local lore, the cave was the second-to-last-stop on the Underground Railroad.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 2 Oct. 2023
• The Underground Railroad used quilt codes to send secret messages.
  — al, 6 Feb. 2023
• The tunnel entrance is also believed to have been one of the various outlets for the Underground Railroad.
  — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 5 July 2023
• Turner is always on the lookout for a connection, a story on the Underground Railroad.
  — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 14 Sep. 2023
• Cincinnati has a rich Underground Railroad history, and some Glendale residents think their village played a key role in it.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 16 June 2024
• Northside was also known as a safe haven for Underground Railroad travelers.
  — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 26 Dec. 2022
• This is the Underground Railroad’s multiperson memoir, with all the power and gravitas of an epic poem.
  — Kai Thomas, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2023
• Over the decades their rustic dwelling continued to rub against history, as a site of bloodshed in the colonial wars against Native Americans, and later as a station on the Underground Railroad.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2023
• Tubman’s relationship with entities of the natural world was central to her work on the Underground Railroad.
  — Tiya Miles, Washington Post, 16 June 2024
• The overhead set piece also features patterns found on quilts hung outside houses, quietly marking them as stations of the Underground Railroad.
  — Naveen Kumar, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2024
• William Lambert, a pivotal organizer of Detroit's role in the Underground Railroad, helped free thousands of enslaved people.
  — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 22 Mar. 2024
• This incredible movie tells the awe-inspiring and harrowing story of Harriet Tubman and her many journeys back and forth on the Underground Railroad.
  — Chaise Sanders, Country Living, 5 Feb. 2023
• Nathan was posthumously honored by the National Underground Railroad Network in 2012 for his efforts.
  — Detroit Free Press, 2 Mar. 2024
• Among those buried here: Underground Railroad conductors.
  — Martha Teichner, CBS News, 9 July 2023
• Guiding their efforts is a dedicated pastor in South Korea with extensive contacts in the Underground Railroad for defectors, plus his own scars from years of this hazardous work.
  — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• The Underground Railroad ran straight through Philadelphia.
  — Andrew Diemer, Time, 13 Jan. 2023
• This has long been Operation Underground Railroad’s ethos.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 24 Mar. 2022
• The real Ballard hasn’t claimed to do anything quite like that, but the film ends with a montage of clips from sting operations his group, Operation Underground Railroad, actually conducted in the country.
  — Herb Scribner and Will Sommer, Anchorage Daily News, 8 July 2023
• In the museum, Cross plans to show how certain topics — from the Underground Railroad or Reconstruction — are interconnected.
  — Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 June 2024
• Many pivotal steps to end slavery were acts of refusal: The Underground Railroad was created because abolitionists refused to be complicit in oppression and abuse.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2024
• Not only did enslavers pursue fugitives, but there was also a reverse Underground Railroad, where predators kidnapped legally free Black people, often children, and sold them south into bondage.
  — Tracy Schorn, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2023
• There is extensive instruction on the history and economics of the development of slavery, as well as abolitionism, slave revolts, and the Underground Railroad.
  — The Editors, National Review, 25 July 2023
• Some are critical of how the material is presented, especially the emphasis on the Underground Railroad.
  — Benjamin Wells, Journal Sentinel, 29 Sep. 2022
• That ancestor bought property near participants in the Underground Railroad.
  — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 14 Sep. 2023
• Our involvement with Operation Underground Railroad was rooted in our commitment to fighting against human trafficking.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2023
• Historians who have researched Underground Railroad activity in Maryland noted that train infrastructure was critical to northbound freedom seekers, who would follow rails or ride as passengers.
  — Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 29 July 2024
• Advertisement Operation Underground Railroad, which Ballard founded in 2013, has been criticized for some of its claims and tactics, with some critics saying the organization exaggerates its successes.
  — Herb Scribner, Washington Post, 13 July 2023

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024