How to Use way station in a Sentence

way station

noun

• Lviv is a way station as much as a new home for the displaced.
  — Loveday Morris, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Mar. 2022
• In the eastern town of Pokrovsk, a church has become a way station.
  — Washington Post, 7 May 2022
• That structure could serve as a kind of way station between the Earth and the Red Planet.
  — Calla Cofield, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2017
• Once the bastion of the privileged few, the campus soon came to be seen as a way station along the road to the middle class.
  — New York Times, 13 May 2022
• Laya is one of the principal way stations along the Snowman Trek.
  — Chris Jones, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2020
• On a Friday night, the bar feels like a mere way station for hordes waiting to be seated in the dining room.
  — Samantha Melamed, Philly.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• In the months after, hundreds of migrants flowed to a U.N. way station for refugees approved to leave the country.
  — Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2019
• In the months after, hundreds of migrants flowed to a UN way station for refugees approved to leave the country.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Dec. 2019
• The first involves firing dust (things like salt or coal) from Earth to a way station at Lagrange Point 1 (L1).
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 10 Feb. 2023
• Groups of people headed for the border came to this way station, then made their way to the border once darkness fell.
  — Maria E. Andreu, Teen Vogue, 18 June 2018
• In all, this sudden way station has about 6,500 people.
  — Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2021
• The project was inspired when Ipsen was camping in the Arizona desert with a friend and came across a way station for migrants who had crossed the border.
  — Mark Pratt, latimes.com, 7 May 2018
• The next year, Yeltsin tapped him as prime minister, a way station to the presidency.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
• Every ten miles or so, there will be a little way station, a humble gite-d’etape to sit and rest, get water from a spring.
  — Christopher Ketcham, The New Republic, 10 Apr. 2018
• The square is a major way station for commuters and a place where day laborers gather in the hopes of picking up work.
  — Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2018
• In 1941, the Kaminskys were arrested and sent to Drancy, an internment camp near Paris that was a way station to the death camps.
  — Joseph Berger, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Jan. 2023
• In the early ’70s, Venice was a kind of way station for people who wanted to be amazing at some small, strange, pretty thing.
  — Chris Jones, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2022
• For the eight people buried here — all of them his clients— the field was the final stop in a country that was only ever supposed to be a way station.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2020
• But college for me was not a way station to a career in tech, finance, or consulting.
  — Chris Hughes, Town & Country, 10 July 2018
• The players now occupy a room that looks more like a clubhouse and less like a way station for athletes waiting to catch a bus.
  — Henry Schulman, SFChronicle.com, 16 June 2019
• The Hidden Valley site is a sort of way station for the sludge, a holding area where shipments of sludge can be mixed with water and sent out in spray trucks when the time comes.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 3 Mar. 2022
• In The Passenger home is but way stations in hopeless transit.
  — Joy Williams, Harper's Magazine, 14 Dec. 2022
• The airport in Kabul has become a chaotic way station with scenes of pathos, writes Bulos.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2021
• The person, and the conversation with then, is a beautiful way station on your route.
  — Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• Peyrassol is a historic winery in Provence, dating from the 1200s when the property was owned by the Knights Templar as a way station on the journey to the Crusades.
  — Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2021
• An important supply hub, the city was a military way station for Russian forces in parts of the Donbas.
  — Arkansas Online, 11 Sep. 2022
• For Nelson, as for most of the women who stayed at the Barbizon, the hotel was a way station, somewhere to escape their past or to plan their future.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021
• For years, Mérida was seen less as a destination in its own right and more as a way station en route to Mayan temples nearby.
  — Mary Holland, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Mar. 2023
• On their way to the U.S. concentration camps, some were forced to cut brush with machetes in blistering heat at a way station in Panama.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2022
• Located a few miles offshore, the floating platform is a way station for aid as it's unloaded off cargo ships onto trucks that are then carried aboard small vessels that will take them to the causeway, which is attached to land.
  — Luis Martinez, ABC News, 16 May 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024