a typically long narrow way connecting parts of a building
airline passengers had to pass through the security checkpoints before being allowed in the concourse
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Recent Examples of concourseWalking from the concourse straight into a hotel lobby and being able to eat, shower, and sleep without leaving the terminal really does something for travel stress and exhaustion levels.—Skye Sherman, Travel + Leisure, 11 Jan. 2026 Of course, downtown has changed since Perron’s Hardee’s days — but from her viewpoint, looking out the floor-to-ceiling windows that separate her small shop from the Wells Fargo Place concourse, things are headed in the right direction.—Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 11 Jan. 2026 The neighborhood/area The crown jewel of the Contemporary’s location is without a doubt the Magic Kingdom, which is a short walk away or one stop on the monorail—which stops right inside the hotel on the main concourse.—Valerie Marino, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Jan. 2026 There will be no fancy concourses or luxury boxes here.—Chris Johnston, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for concourse
The tunnel project, the nation's largest infrastructure project, would expand train service between New York and New Jersey along the nation’s busiest rail corridor by adding a new rail tunnel and rehabilitating the existing 115-year-old pair of tunnels under the Hudson River.
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Joey Garrison,
USA Today,
7 Feb. 2026
Scores of providers sprang up along a corridor stretching west from the San Gabriel Valley through the San Fernando Valley, which now has the highest concentration of hospices in the nation.
The pictures also showed Madonna playing a drum while her children partied in the background; Stella and Estere giving the camera a moody look; Madonna and Akeem with their arms around each other; the three sisters striking a pose in a hallway; and a family photo with Madonna and her five kids.
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Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
4 Feb. 2026
In the bowels of the arena on Tuesday, two workers were painting a hallway.
The carpal tunnel, located in the wrist, is a narrow passageway that is surrounded by bones and ligaments.
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BestReviews,
Mercury News,
5 Feb. 2026
Thought of as the graffiti of its time, the inscriptions also included stories about daily life, sporting events, passions and insults, carved into a passageway that connected Pompeii's theater district to one of its main roads.