Examples of passageway in a Sentence
the passageway to the other side of the office
Recent Examples on the Web
On top of the interruption of port activity, the collapse of the Key Bridge removes a major passageway for vehicles, especially commercial ones, Zandi said.
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Max Zahn, ABC News, 26 Mar. 2024
Was this just a shallow pocket, or a longer subterranean passageway?
—Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2024
Price is deliciously diabolical in the film, which is full of literal and metaphorical trap doors and secret passageways.
—Katie Rife, EW.com, 12 Mar. 2024
Scutt has reimagined the 1,250-seat August Wilson Theatre as an intimate club—warrens of labyrinthine new corridors and passageways, three new bars, and an auditorium reinvented as a theater-in-the-round.
—Adrienne Miller, Vogue, 5 Mar. 2024
The rest of the event consisted of wide rooms and passageways divided by black tarps.
—Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
The long narrow passageway where the driveway once continued into the backyard was the biggest opportunity for transformation through plantings.
—Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 22 Feb. 2024
There were no signs of passageways under the Palace of Columns, but the team did identify a stairway that led down to a pair of doors and, at a greater depth, chambers that could be tombs.
—Franz Lidz Meghan Dhaliwal, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2023
The New York City property, which is based at the end of a passageway off of Rivington Street and near The Bowery, is touted as currently being the only hotel in New York City to have an onsite service of this kind.
—Michele Herrmann, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
Max Zahn, ABC News, 26 Mar. 2024
Was this just a shallow pocket, or a longer subterranean passageway?
—Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2024
Price is deliciously diabolical in the film, which is full of literal and metaphorical trap doors and secret passageways.
—Katie Rife, EW.com, 12 Mar. 2024
Scutt has reimagined the 1,250-seat August Wilson Theatre as an intimate club—warrens of labyrinthine new corridors and passageways, three new bars, and an auditorium reinvented as a theater-in-the-round.
—Adrienne Miller, Vogue, 5 Mar. 2024
The rest of the event consisted of wide rooms and passageways divided by black tarps.
—Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
The long narrow passageway where the driveway once continued into the backyard was the biggest opportunity for transformation through plantings.
—Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 22 Feb. 2024
There were no signs of passageways under the Palace of Columns, but the team did identify a stairway that led down to a pair of doors and, at a greater depth, chambers that could be tombs.
—Franz Lidz Meghan Dhaliwal, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2023
The New York City property, which is based at the end of a passageway off of Rivington Street and near The Bowery, is touted as currently being the only hotel in New York City to have an onsite service of this kind.
—Michele Herrmann, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
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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 18 Apr. 2024.
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passageway
noun
pas·sage·way
-ˌwā 
: a road or way by which a person or thing may pass
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