How to Use passageway in a Sentence

passageway

noun
  • 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
  • The kitchen has a passageway to the dining room through the butler's pantry.
    Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • There is a secret passageway that leads from the Palace to a bar.
    Marie Claire Editors, Marie Claire, 3 Oct. 2021
  • And sometimes it'll get sucked back in the air passageway and choke them.
    Kelly Ward, The Courier-Journal, 5 June 2018
  • 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
  • Think of it as turning on a light above the passageway out.
    Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Three large stone doors stand before you in the passageway.
    Richard Malena, Popular Mechanics, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The ship had no inner passageway so Sawchik had to make his way across the outer decks.
    Brian Albrecht, cleveland.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • That’s a problem since the cervix is the passageway for your baby during birth.
    Zahra Barnes, SELF, 19 Sep. 2019
  • This space serves as a passageway or seating area for tea.
    Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 5 May 2024
  • 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
  • There was no need to interrupt the passageway for the mural.
    Alexandra Mendoza, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • How did its 412 miles of passageways and counting — with more discovered all the time — come to be?
    Michael Schroeder, Twin Cities, 12 Oct. 2019
  • Inside the gate is a narrow brick passageway, lined with old posters.
    Brett Martin, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The rest of the event consisted of wide rooms and passageways divided by black tarps.
    Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Your kids will learn how the passageways were slowly formed over time millions of years ago as dinosaurs roamed the earth.
    Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 12 July 2019
  • Many of the cave’s passageways have been submerged in floodwaters and Capt.
    Char Adams, PEOPLE.com, 3 July 2018
  • At that point, the pair was about 1.5 miles from that main passageway, which is paved and has facilities.
    Dennis Romero, NBC News, 25 Nov. 2022
  • The teacher later called and said all children had been safely moved through a passageway from the basement to the church.
    Ray Sanchez, CNN, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Regardless of whether the wall is straight or not, those separate passageways are like twins who look alike but work different schedules.
    Gwen Rockwood The Rockwood Files, arkansasonline.com, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Some of the lava tubes could also be inaccessible due to debris blocking the passageways, Carrer added.
    Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 17 July 2024

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