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Examples of passageway in a Sentence
the passageway to the other side of the office
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Such lean staffing is something of a necessity: the Bowery Market, a onetime auto-body shop on a busy NoHo corner, hosts four near-microscopic food stalls arranged around a broad open-air passageway.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2024
Seemingly supernatural encounters, locked rooms and secret passageways tease the question of whether the house is truly haunted, or whether the long-ago death was actually a murder.
—Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2024
Boasting over seven play areas, including a secret passageway with a slide, dorm room, bathroom, creepateria, and a classroom, this is not your typical doll house.
—Toby Rose, Parents, 24 Oct. 2024
The farm town of Dixon, population 19,000, made its mark in mazes about 20 years ago — about the time corn mazes began to take off across the U.S. thanks to new computer programming that helps farmers plot out massive labyrinths with a sinuous web of passageways.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
circa 1606, in the meaning defined above
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“Passageway.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/passageway. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
Kids Definition
passageway
noun
pas·sage·way
-ˌwā
: a road or way by which a person or thing may pass
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