How to Use subway in a Sentence

subway

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  • 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
  • Of course there are going to be a lot of Ghostface masks on the subway.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 8 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • Would the coats’ hems gather grime on a subway platform or catch in a taxi’s door?
    — Charlie Teasdale, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • But it’s taken to the absurd of what a subway system could be like.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • In Tokyo, for almost two months, the subways would be free for everybody.
    — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Send the police, send in the Guard — many have come to believe that, regardless, the subway is going to be the subway.
    — Michael Wilson, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2024
  • The building it was set in was so cavernous that two real subway cars used in one scene looked small.
    — Lisa Rosen, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The people around us move awkwardly to dodge the stinky subway water.
    — Clio Chang, Curbed, 25 July 2023
  • On April 12, a gunman set off smoke bombs and opened fire in a subway car, wounding more than 20 people.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Tens of thousands of people arrived, many by subway and bike, to the park, which is on an island in the St. Lawrence River.
    — Emma Jacobs, NPR, 8 Apr. 2024
  • When the city heats up, many New Yorkers start to contemplate taking the subway to the end of the line, dreaming of the fresh ocean breeze and the frozen treats sold along the boardwalk.
    — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
  • He is known to the police department in the subway system, Kaplan said.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2023
  • But on the public stage of a street, the subway, or a tree-shorn park, a mundane interaction can take on strange airs.
    — Nicole Acheampong, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The film contains one of the great gross-out scenes of all time, in which Adjani has a bloody, violent miscarriage in a Berlin subway station and slams her body around as if in the throes of an exorcism.
    — The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2024

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