How to Use hallway in a Sentence

hallway

noun
  • I'll meet you in the front hallway.
  • Her office is at the end of the hallway.
  • By the time the doors opened, the line snaked down the hallway.
    Clare Hymes, CBS News, 24 Jan. 2023
  • In the crossfire, Fez gets hit in the side and drops to the ground in the hallway.
    ELLE, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Deputies ask if the rooms along the hallway have been checked.
    Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2023
  • But though the hallways are the same, times have changed.
    Taryn Brooke, Allure, 20 June 2024
  • On the way out, the man taped a flyer to a wall in the hallway.
    Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 19 June 2024
  • Which hallway was the fastest route to their first class?
    Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The west end of the third-floor hallway was, at one time, drenched.
    Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The help your kid needs in math might be right down the hallway.
    Tom Vander Ark, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Feet from us, in the hallway outside the locked doors, the crowd on the third floor had grown.
    Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • In the hallway, Shota’s grinding his shoe against the wall.
    Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Or, pick up a baby and sing it to sleep in the hallway.
    Eva Wiseman, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2023
  • And what’s with that door at the end of the hallway that seems to open by itself?
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 7 Sep. 2022
  • The scared kids step over fresh blood and then jostle in the hallway….
    Sophie Pinkham, The New York Review of Books, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Alexzandria was found in a hallway and died at the scene.
    CBS News, 26 Oct. 2022
  • His screams from the holding area could be heard in court as the door to the hallway closed.
    George Chidi, Rolling Stone, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The hallway connects the open dining lounge and powder room to the rest of the home.
    Carisha Swanson, House Beautiful, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The first shots came from the hallway outside the classroom.
    New York Times, 10 July 2022
  • The first shots came from the hallway outside the classroom.
    Edgar Sandoval, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2022
  • Keane could see the woman on a stretcher in the E.R. hallway.
    Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024
  • As the family made their way out, the staff filled the hallways and cheered.
    Brian Brant, Peoplemag, 15 Sep. 2023
  • In the hallway, Dwight finds Stacy, who is not in a good way.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 29 Sep. 2024
  • The gunman, Lashawn McNeil, emerged from the hallway, and the rookie shot him twice, in the head and the arm.
    New York Times, 22 Jan. 2022
  • My son and his friend shared a room, and my daughter and her friend had to sleep in the hallway.
    Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 23 July 2024
  • Gravlee spoke to the judge from a hallway at Brookside town hall, and the judge agreed to set bail at $5,500.
    Ashley Remkus | Aremkus@al.com, al, 15 Feb. 2022
  • The sun shot right down the hallway, hitting the monolith and the stone marker.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2023
  • The fire consumed that apartment that is on two floors and part of the hallway.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Students aren't allowed to use their phones even outside of the classroom, such as during lunch or in the hallway in between classes.
    Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The hotel's private art collection of over 1,000 original pieces adorn the walls of its grand hallways, lobby, and suites.
    Sal Dibenedetto, Travel + Leisure, 17 Aug. 2025

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