Wondering how to use Subway in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as metro or underpass.
Subway meaning
- An underground railway, especially for mass transit of people in urban areas.
- A train that runs on such an underground railway.
- A rapid transit system, regardless of the elevation of its right of way; a metro system.
Synonyms of Subway
Using Subway
- The main meaning on this page is: An underground railway, especially for mass transit of people in urban areas. | A train that runs on such an underground railway. | A rapid transit system, regardless of the elevation of its right of way; a metro system.
- Useful related words include: metro, underpass, railway system, railway line.
- In the example corpus, subway often appears in combinations such as: the subway, subway station, subway train.
Context around Subway
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 11 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Subway
- In this selection, "subway" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 29.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, calls, month, introduced, station, system and uses stand out and add context to how "subway" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a magical subway car transported and a single subway stop or. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "subway" sits close to words such as eaten, florence and hygiene, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with subway
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The Inner and Outer subway circles were closed after the incident, Glasgow Subway tweeted. (14 words)
It saved the Subway System nearly $22,456 from the subway system budget for those 100 signs. (17 words)
There will be free cookies and chips for those that visit Subway more often, said Carissa Ganelli, Subway’s chief digital officer. (22 words)
In November 2009, Subway signed a deal to serve exclusively Seattle's Best Coffee coffee as part of their breakfast menu in the US. citation A 2009 Zagat survey named Subway the best provider of "Healthy Options" (in the "Mega Chain" category). (42 words)
Subway uses the advertising slogan "Eat Fresh", and focuses on how their sandwiches are made from freshly baked bread and fresh ingredients, in front of customers to their exact specifications, by employees whom Subway calls "Subway Sandwich Artists". (38 words)
A security personnel wearing protective clothing to help stop the spread of a deadly virus which began in Wuhan, talks with a subway staff (L) wearing a mask at a subway station entrance in Beijing on Jan. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Subway uses the advertising slogan "Eat Fresh", and focuses on how their sandwiches are made from freshly baked bread and fresh ingredients, in front of customers to their exact specifications, by employees whom Subway calls "Subway Sandwich Artists".
Earlier this month, Subway announced that Trevor Haynes, president for Subway’s North America operations, was leaving after being with the company for 18 years.
It was Subway business developers Neil Black and Paul Heyes who introduced Subway to Northern Ireland, opening the first restaurant in June 1998.
Vehicles from Chakravarthy Layout can use the subway to get to Udaya TV Junction, and vehicles from Udaya TV Junction can use the subway to travel to BDA.
A teenager was killed Friday afternoon in Brooklyn while riding on the outside of a subway train in a so-called subway surfing incident, transit officials said.
It saved the Subway System nearly $22,456 from the subway system budget for those 100 signs.
A security personnel wearing protective clothing to help stop the spread of a deadly virus which began in Wuhan, talks with a subway staff (L) wearing a mask at a subway station entrance in Beijing on Jan.
Colin Hughes, country director of Subway UK and Ireland said: "Everybody in our Subway family and the wider communities they serve, has shown great resilience in adapting to these challenging times that we currently find ourselves in.
Billy, a 12-year-old orphan, is lured into an abandoned subway station where a magical subway car transported him to the Rock of Eternity, the magical lair of an ancient wizard named Shazam.
But this method is imprecise, and because of the age of the signals, subway personnel do not actually know the exact location of the subway cars using block signaling.
The Inner and Outer subway circles were closed after the incident, Glasgow Subway tweeted.
Bucharest subway worker unions announced on Friday that they have decided to go on general strike on an indefinite basis, starting with next Wednesday, in the context of failed CBA negotiations with public subway company Metrorex.
But the ballooning subway costs soon priced out the Eglinton East LRT, creating the standoff at council in July 2016 over whether a single subway stop or a network of LRTs would better serve Scarborough residents.
She also correctly notes that Andrew Cuomo hasn’t been on a subway since opening the Second Avenue subway’s three stops two years ago.
There will be free cookies and chips for those that visit Subway more often, said Carissa Ganelli, Subway’s chief digital officer.
For example, a subway map intended for riders may represent a subway station with a dot; the dot doesn't resemble the actual station at all but gives the viewer information without unnecessary visual clutter.
His most recent work, Henry Chalfant's Graffiti Archive: New York City's Subway Art and Artists displays his over 800 photographs of New York City Subway Graffiti Art.
In November 2009, Subway signed a deal to serve exclusively Seattle's Best Coffee coffee as part of their breakfast menu in the US. citation A 2009 Zagat survey named Subway the best provider of "Healthy Options" (in the "Mega Chain" category).
Japanese commuter rail also tends to be heavily interlined with subway lines, with commuter rail trains continuing into the subway network, and then out onto different commuter rail systems on the other side of the city.
Passengers using CharlieCards can transfer free from a subway to a bus, and from a bus to a subway for the difference in price ("step-up fare").
Common combinations with subway
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the subway 49×
- subway station 25×
- subway train 13×
- subway system 11×
- at subway 11×
- subway and 10×
- city subway 9×
- of subway 9×
- subway to 8×
- subway car 7×