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
- 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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