And, dear, please keep your throat covered when you go out--Mrs. Kennedy says that the subways are always cold and full of draughts.
The mountain peaks rose far higher than the tallest of New York's skyscrapers; and the pits and ravines were lower than the waters of the harbor and rivers, lower than the subways and the tubes and the tunnels.
The subways and tubes and tunnels yawned like black fantastic chasms crossed and littered by broken girders.
Patrolling soldiers in the now deserted subways saw them marching past.
For in the subways and tubes the stoppage of the trains had automatically discontinued the suction ventilation.
The subways were practically deserted; the theaters empty; the accustomed careless life of the Great White Way thinned; the streams of life slackened.
In most old beaver colonies, where the character of the bottom of the pond permits it, there are two or more tunnels or subways beneath the floor of the principal pond.
Pond subways also afford a place of refuge or a means of escape in case the house is destroyed, the dam broken, or the pond drained, or in case the pond should freeze to the bottom.
In the cities they build subways and skyscrapers and railroad terminals that are the wonder of the world.
It is not only possible but probable that in many of them the building of subways or the extension of existing ones will yet render possible the cleaning of the surfaces of downtown streets for motor-car traffic exclusively.
Nightly the abominable overcrowdings of the New York subways are repeated throughout the Boston suburban zone, and with far less excuse.
The suburban trains are, of course, made up of multiple-unit cars, like those of the subways or the elevated railroads, and dispense altogether with locomotives of any sort.
The influence of Horace is everywhere patent in León's works.
The nephew of López de Ayala, he belongs partly to the Middle Ages, but largely also to the Renaissance.
It was singing that dug the subwaysunder the streets in New York.
He has had the spirit of removing oceans and of building huge, underground cities, the spirit of caves in the ground and mansions in the sky, and now he has subways and skyscrapers.
The related models of the Broadway and Tower Subways represent short sections of tunnels only 8 feet or so in diameter enabling a relatively large scale, 1-1/2 inches to the foot, to be used.
Then facing inexorable necessity, he ordered his engineers to blow up these three beautiful spans that had cost hundreds of millions, and to flood the subways between Brooklyn and Manhattan.
The Boston company is operating to-day three subways and one elevated line, besides having contracted to build two more subways and another elevated.
Subways have usually turned out to be very poor investments, as many companies have learned to their cost, in London, Liverpool, Glasgow, Berlin.
Subways have other disadvantages which must be carefully considered.
The general height of the subways will be about 11 feet 6 inches and their width 7 feet; they will be of brickwork, excepting where they are carried over the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway; there they will be of iron.
The subways relieve the heavy traffic, and the factories are all at short distances from the town, except those in which the work that is carried on is silent and free from nuisance.
Before thesubways can be constructed, trenches somewhat wide and deep must be excavated.
The gangs that dig sewers and subways and build railways are recruited from the illiterate or nearly so, and for our supply of the lower grades of labor we must depend upon countries with a poorer school system than ours.
A changed and Christian environment would make shining lights out of these poor immigrants, who are kept in the subways of American life, instead of being given a fair chance out in the open air and sunlight of decently paid service.
The subways were crowded with people who had no intention of going anywhere in particular; they just wanted to retreat from the hot streets to the air-conditioned bowels of the city.
It is the ideal scheme from the standpoint of the passenger, for no stairs or bridges or subways are necessary to reach any track.
Philadelphia is such a wide-spreading and sprawling town that the trolley lines have afforded little real rapid transit to the outlying sections, while relief by subways and elevated lines has so far been meagre.
Not only are New York City’s subways operated by electricity; they were also built by electricity, a statement which applies to the new subways as well as the parts of the first system.
Footbridges or subwaysto be provided for passengers to cross the 26 railway at all exchange and other important stations.
Efficient handrails to be provided on both staircases and ramps, and in subways where ramps are used the inclination not to exceed 1 in 8.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "subways" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
