Below you will find example sentences with "underground railroad". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Underground Railroad in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: underground
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 11
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 25.1 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 6 start, 9 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "underground railroad" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 25.1 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as and the underground railroad would have, canada s underground railroad connections, history, freedom and houses stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with london underground, underground mine, underground station, london underground, underground station and lucha underground, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with underground railroad
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Tyr’s special shoe for Operation Underground Railroad. (8 words)
Information about slave revolts, abolition and the Underground Railroad would have been shared there. (14 words)
Woodson-Wilson can trace her family back to those seeking freedom through the Underground Railroad. (15 words)
Celeste Borys, one of the women suing Tim Ballard, flew to California with her lawyer last week to file criminal complaints alleging the founder of Operation Underground Railroad sexually assaulted her in four jurisdictions, according to her attorney. (38 words)
Leslie McCurdy invokes the “spirit” of Harriet Tubman as she portrays the life of the famous Underground Railroad conductor, recreating stories familiar and some rarely told, using words said to have been Harriet Tubman’s own. (36 words)
Completely refurbished, this mansion was once part of the Underground Railroad and today houses 16 period rooms, a railroad museum, West Des Moines community history, and a museum dedicated to the Underground Railroad in Iowa. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Completely refurbished, this mansion was once part of the Underground Railroad and today houses 16 period rooms, a railroad museum, West Des Moines community history, and a museum dedicated to the Underground Railroad in Iowa.
Underground Railroad The Old Rock House in Alton, seen June 22, 2023, is an Underground Railroad site.
Sites were selected based on their focus on Ohio’s Underground Railroad sites or direct relation to either the Underground Railroad or known abolitionists in Ohio.
The series is set in an alternate history where the Underground Railroad was a real, physical secret railroad, with actual tracks and tunnels tucked away underground.
For the second reading, Diane Johnson described the Underground Railroad, which was not an actual railroad but rather a series of routes and safe houses that took runaway slaves to freedom to the north.
As someone who has branches of his family tree in Michigan as early as 1846, Simmons said his ancestors probably used the Underground Railroad network.
McCarty is seeking to publish her compilation of Underground Railroad research to benefit the students and residents of the county and broaden the awareness of the “Freedom Train” that helped many to gain independence.
She learned through a friend at the National Park Service that the church could be eligible for inclusion in its National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.
The completion of the self-guided Underground Railroad walking tour was made possible through a collaboration between Oneida County Officials and the Oneida Indian Nation.
Tyr’s special shoe for Operation Underground Railroad.
Underground Railroad People walk near the Lincoln Tomb, the final resting place of President Abraham Lincoln, in Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield on July 18, 2023.
Woodson-Wilson can trace her family back to those seeking freedom through the Underground Railroad.
Celeste Borys, one of the women suing Tim Ballard, flew to California with her lawyer last week to file criminal complaints alleging the founder of Operation Underground Railroad sexually assaulted her in four jurisdictions, according to her attorney.
Gibbs had worked on the Underground Railroad helping Blacks escape from slavery along with Frederick Douglas.
Her father, Abraham Doras Shadd, was active in the Underground Railroad and was featured on Canada Post’s first Black History Month stamp issue in 2009.
Information about slave revolts, abolition and the Underground Railroad would have been shared there.
Leslie McCurdy invokes the “spirit” of Harriet Tubman as she portrays the life of the famous Underground Railroad conductor, recreating stories familiar and some rarely told, using words said to have been Harriet Tubman’s own.
Lunch & Learn: The Underground Railroad Revisited at the Olana State Historic Site in Hudson, 11am.
Masse said the apology would mean officially closing that chapter of Canadian history, one he says is less well-known because of Canada's Underground Railroad connections.
The next time I go out to make a film whether it’s something like “The Underground Railroad” or “Beale Street,” James and I are probably going to incorporate these tools as well.