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.
• The child’s death is now the fourth — and youngest — child to die this year by subway surfing.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 17 Sep. 2024
• The death, as Fox 11 reports, marks the 11th killing in the New York subway system this year.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 10 Dec. 2022
• This line opened in 2002 and was the city’s first new subway line in almost forty years.
  — Ankit Mishra, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
• Of course there are going to be a lot of Ghostface masks on the subway.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 8 Mar. 2023
• Frankie, Caleb, and Stubbs make it down to the subway just as the signal goes out and all hell breaks loose.
  — Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 8 Aug. 2022
• The same is true when you’re stuck in traffic or inside the subway.
  — Prakhar Khanna, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
• New York man to be charged in the subway chokehold killing of Jordan Neely.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2023
• The Brazilian fan said people asked to snap photos with him on the subway ride to the game.
  — Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 12 Sep. 2024
• By most measures, the subways are no more dangerous than the rest of the city.
  — Brandon Del Pozo, New York Daily News, 15 Dec. 2024
• Would the coats’ hems gather grime on a subway platform or catch in a taxi’s door?
  — Charlie Teasdale, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2023
• On nights when her boyfriend is unavailable, the boss or his son drives her the eight blocks to the subway stop.
  — Han Ong, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
• The backsplash is a mix of textured 8-inch-by-2.5-inch white Cloe subway tiles.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2022
• Leah writes: My boyfriend, Matt, refers to subway lines by color.
  — John Hodgman, New York Times, 20 July 2023
• Here’s a great piece from this week: Who rides the subway in Los Angeles?
  — Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2023
• Davies has taken the commuter rail and subway for more than three decades.
  — Shirley Leung, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2022
• There was such a good feeling, like people high-fiving on the subway, that was the glue.
  — Erin Osmon, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• Like many, the 19-year-old began subway surfing in his mid-teens.
  — Joshua Needelman, Curbed, 16 Aug. 2023
• The jurors, for their part, filed out of the courtroom and, perhaps, boarded the subway home.
  — Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
• But it’s taken to the absurd of what a subway system could be like.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2024
• Five bridges connect it to the three boroughs, and the city's subway system is a bus ride or walk away.
  — CBS News, 19 Oct. 2022
• Men and women on the streets, subways, and elsewhere, in an opiate haze.
  — Margaux Anbouba, Vogue, 8 Dec. 2023
• Yeah, even Michael Myers was just standing there on the subway.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2023
• The rest of the 13-minute chronicles the process of shooting the video on the streets of New York, including a freestyle dance scene in a subway station.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 15 Mar. 2023
• Walking around set those five days on the subway was one of the funniest weeks of moviemaking.
  — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 13 Mar. 2023
• The ministry placed ads in subway stations, at bus stops and in store windows.
  — Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024
• The site is near a future Metro subway stop at Wilshire and La Cienega boulevards set to open this year.
  — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2025
• But the Madison stop closed in 1951, when trains were rerouted into downtown via the subway that is still in use today and the tracks along Paulina closed to passenger service.
  — Sarah Freishtat, Chicago Tribune, 8 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 2 Mar 2025