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subway system

NOUN
  1. an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city)
    in Paris the subway system is called the `metro' and in London it is called the `tube' or the `underground'

How To Use subway system In A Sentence

  • Studies comparing annual ridership rank New York City's subway system the fifth largest in the world.
  • in Paris the subway system is called the `metro' and in London it is called the `tube' or the `underground'
  • Lately Metro has taken a lot of heat because of persistent subway system deficiencies: lack of air conditioning in rail cars; escalator and elevator outages; and operator or equipment failures resulting in derailments and collisions -- along with injuries and fatalities. Shaping the City: Let there be light (carefully) in Metro stations
  • It's giving her nightmares of beehive tombs, the subway system as a mastaba, too tight a fit for her. Texas
  • For untangling the spaghetti bowl that is Tokyo's train/subway system, it's pretty much indispensable.
  • Mira Sorvino stars in this dim-witted, dimly lit monster flick about gigantic cockroaches living in the New York subway system.
  • The automobile and urban rail and subway systems enabled cities to expand outward, by permitting increased separation between home and workplace. Sociology
  • His life takes a sudden twist when a strong earthquake and aftershocks cause catastrophic damage to the subway system, trapping a train and its handful of passengers in harm's way.
  • Mitchell visualized a hormonal flow chart that resembled a metropolitan subway system, all lines headed for the downtown station.
  • Last fall heavy rains took the subway system out of service twice within a two week period of time.
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