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
• 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
• The French islanders were happy to have their big harbor transformed into a way station for southbound booze.
  — Marc Wortman, Smithsonian, 17 Jan. 2018
• For the millions who fled upheaval in China, Hong Kong served for more than a century as a refuge but also a way station to a better place.
  — New York Times, 30 June 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024