[
US
/ˈsəbˌweɪ/
]
[ UK /sˈʌbweɪ/ ]
[ UK /sˈʌbweɪ/ ]
NOUN
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an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city)
in Paris the subway system is called the `metro' and in London it is called the `tube' or the `underground' - an underground tunnel or passage enabling pedestrians to cross a road or railway
How To Use subway In A Sentence
- Americans are looking into alternative modes of transportation such as trolleys, trains, subways, and buses, which all showed a ridership increase, with the largest growth in major cities. As gas prices increase, consumption decreases
- Construction of subways or overbridges for foot traffic will reduce disruption of traffic.
- Pissing on the floor or seats of a subway, bus, or aeroplane is considered 'wrong'. Archive 2007-04-01
- An extended communal deliquescence into the same subway sludge from which the torment arose.
- But parts of some New York subway lines were working again. The Sun
- Studies comparing annual ridership rank New York City's subway system the fifth largest in the world.
- Crossing the busy circle is a difficult task for pedestrians in the absence of a subway.
- The subway froze in its tracks, and thousands of people found themselves trapped in stuffy box cars and pitch-dark tunnels.
- In one case, a man was subdued by police after squirting a mysterious spray at a Maryland subway station.
- Emerging from the subway to see an upturned hot-dog cart on the corner of Franklin Street.