How to Use passageway in a Sentence
passageway
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The passageway where Moore and I were walking was one of the places in the city that have changed the least since that time.
—Mark O’Connell, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2020
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The kitchen has a passageway to the dining room through the butler's pantry.
—Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 24 Apr. 2018
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There is a secret passageway that leads from the Palace to a bar.
—Marie Claire Editors, Marie Claire, 3 Oct. 2021
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And sometimes it'll get sucked back in the air passageway and choke them.
—Kelly Ward, The Courier-Journal, 5 June 2018
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At the other end of the bar was the curtained hatch to the back kitchen, then the sorrowful passageway to the jacks.
—Kevin Barry, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022
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Think of it as turning on a light above the passageway out.
—Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2020
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The team hiked in from the base of the canyon and began cutting a 2,100-foot passageway through the brush and trees to the animal.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 29 Aug. 2022
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That rough surf marks the edge of a passageway through the reef, like an entry ramp into the open ocean.
—Pam Leblanc, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 May 2022
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As in the past, there is no hall here, but an open passageway that links a series of rooms.
—Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 18 Oct. 2017
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The passageway leads to the wall of a freeway ramp, while First Street is clogged for much of the afternoon.
—John King, SFChronicle.com, 18 July 2019
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On her first day, she is led down a long passageway to her room, which faces an open door across the hall.
—Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2021
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The former passageway that once led from the street to the patio at the rear of the house has also been transformed.
—Nicolas Milon, Architectural Digest, 8 July 2024
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The pipe that burst in December 2016 was one of the main passageways for sewage to reach the city’s treatment plant.
—Brittany Wallman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 2 Nov. 2017
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Caleb then finds a trap door in the wall, leading to a secret passageway.
—De Elizabeth, Teen Vogue, 21 June 2017
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Three large stone doors stand before you in the passageway.
—Richard Malena, Popular Mechanics, 12 Aug. 2022
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The ship had no inner passageway so Sawchik had to make his way across the outer decks.
—Brian Albrecht, cleveland.com, 30 Apr. 2018
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The idea for a passageway linking the Red Sea to the Mediterranean was around well before the canal was built more than 151 years ago.
—Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021
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And that first trip down the passageway will be a lot more exciting.
—Matt Meltzer, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 June 2017
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The tunnel has an average depth of 31 feet and is 3 feet wide through most of the passageway.
—Christopher Brito, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2020
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Four dry ones in the dining room and another two in the passageway at the restroom.
—David J. Neal, miamiherald, 26 Feb. 2018
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Guests take a 30-minute ride through part of the 17 miles of underground passageways at the Louisville Mega Cavern.
—Kathryn Gregory, The Courier-Journal, 14 Nov. 2019
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Riders will speed along the bank of the saucer, swirl 180 degrees and exit through a narrow passageway – all in the dark.
—AL.com, 3 Feb. 2018
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That’s a problem since the cervix is the passageway for your baby during birth.
—Zahra Barnes, SELF, 19 Sep. 2019
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This space serves as a passageway or seating area for tea.
—Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 5 May 2024
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The procedure enlarges the passageway where the spinal nerve exits the spinal canal.
—Dave Clark, Cincinnati.com, 15 Feb. 2018
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At the bridge, a large piece of broken concrete and debris from the railroad hung over the side and on top of the barge that rammed into the passageway.
—Juan Lozano, Fortune, 16 May 2024
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There was no need to interrupt the passageway for the mural.
—Alexandra Mendoza, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Jan. 2024
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How did its 412 miles of passageways and counting – with more discovered all the time – come to be?
—Michael Schroeder, The Know, 29 Sep. 2019
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But sometimes the crooked wall partially blocks one of the passageways.
—Gwen Rockwood The Rockwood Files, arkansasonline.com, 3 Oct. 2024
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The square, no longer just a passageway, becomes a true urban oasis.
—Adam Williams, New Atlas, 24 Nov. 2024
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