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as in museum
a building or part of a building in which objects of interest are displayed visited an array of art galleries while on vacation

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as in hallway
a typically long narrow way connecting parts of a building the guest rooms in the east wing rooms open up onto a long windowed gallery

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as in verandah
Southern & Midland a covered structure adjoining an entrance to a building a big old house with a wraparound gallery just made for a line of rocking chairs

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Recent Examples of gallery Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Phi Alpha Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority hosted events including games and activities for all ages, a communal public art project and gallery talks that explored Black history. Arkansas Online, 20 June 2025 Celebrate Juneteenth 2025 The Museum will honor Juneteenth with activities including a gallery scavenger hunt, dance performances by Edge School of the Arts and music by The Entrfied Band. Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 18 June 2025 Built in 1895, this boutique hotel delivers on Old West charm and modern comforts (think heated bathroom floors) while putting you within walking distance of restaurants, galleries, and more than a dozen trails. Visit Telluride, AFAR Media, 18 June 2025 Upon first visiting Manhattan back in 1915, Moore had credited the editors of the little magazines and her experience at Alfred Stieglitz’s gallery, 291, with instilling in her the desire to move. Susan Gubar june 9, Literary Hub, 9 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for gallery
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Noun
  • The statues, stolen from Benin City in modern-day Nigeria, were looted by British troops at the end of the 19th century and sold on to museums across Europe.
    Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 23 June 2025
  • Regal and unapologetically odd, Worden shaped the museum in her image.
    Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
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  • In the central portion of the chateau, beneath the stately portraits hung on the walls, mostly empty hospital cots filled the hallways.
    Amy Sohn, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2025
  • That's the small mercy serious songs offer: not false hope, but a candle in the hallway, proof that someone else stayed up too.
    Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 26 June 2025
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  • In the age of the great Stalinist purges, this is the plunge of a man into the corridors of a totalitarian regime that does not bear said name.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 24 June 2025
  • Temperatures are set to soar near or into the triple digits along the Amtrak Acela corridor from Washington to New York City, with heat indices climbing as high as 110 degrees or even higher in some locations.
    Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 23 June 2025
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  • Don’t shelter in unprotected open buildings, such as metal sheds, picnic pavilions, baseball dugouts and porches.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 23 June 2025
  • Fronted by a useful porch area, the tiny house also features a spacious interior layout that's arranged on one floor.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 23 June 2025
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  • Additionally, blocking highways, sidewalks or any passageways that are accessible to the public — especially emergency routes—is prohibited, and doing so can lead to felony charges.
    Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 June 2025
  • These houses had three types: homes with steps along the wall or that form a passageway, homes built into two levels with higher places with scorched soil for cooking areas and lower spaces for living, and flat-bottomed homes used as living spaces.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 5 June 2025
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  • People in attendance fled to the concourse during halftime and cooling breaks.
    Emma Moon, Charlotte Observer, 25 June 2025
  • Troops camped at the club, including within the concourses.
    Tim Newcomb, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025

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“Gallery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gallery. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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