Synonyms for subway

Grammar : Noun

Spell : suhb-wey

Phonetic Transcription : ˈsʌbˌweɪ

Définition of subway

Origin : 1825, "underground passage" (for water pipes or pedestrians), from sub- + way. The sense of "underground railway in a city" is first recorded 1893, in reference to Boston.

noun underground railroad

Example sentences :

We were both hanging to straps in the subway and we had but a moment before he got off.
Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole

And the girl, journeying in the subway to and from her work!
Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 » by Various

Morrow sped as fast as elevated and subway could carry him to the Bronx.
Extract from : « The Crevice » by William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander

He took the Subway back to the Grand Central, and walked from there to the club.
Extract from : « The Wall Street Girl » by Frederick Orin Bartlett

It was not for that, or for him, that she was then in the subway, but for dinner.
Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar Saltus

In the subway, the following evening, Cassy saw a man eyeing her.
Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar Saltus

In the cañon below, Jones, as he piloted her to the subway, pulled at his gloves.
Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar Saltus

Passengers are requested to cross over the railway by the subway.
Extract from : « The New Pun Book » by Thomas A. Brown and Thomas Joseph Carey

The subway, Forrester told himself solemnly, didn't do that.
Extract from : « Pagan Passions » by Gordon Randall Garrett

Then the smoky dive across the Schuylkill and the bellow of the subway.
Extract from : « Pipefuls » by Christopher Morley

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