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as in foyer
the entrance room of a building
visitors to the Georgian mansion are received in a handsomely proportioned hallway featuring an open staircase
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Recent Examples of hallway
Lynch opened that space for me, a slit in the real, a velvet hallway with no exit.
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Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
Armed crew members creeping through dim, claustrophobic hallways where death could be lurking around any corner.
—Judy Berman, Time, 5 Aug. 2025
Photo and video journalists can work only in the hallways outside the courtrooms.
—Mark Peterson, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
He was found on the ground in a third-floor hallway with at least one gunshot wound, according to the press release.
—Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2025
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Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
Armed crew members creeping through dim, claustrophobic hallways where death could be lurking around any corner.
—Judy Berman, Time, 5 Aug. 2025
Photo and video journalists can work only in the hallways outside the courtrooms.
—Mark Peterson, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
He was found on the ground in a third-floor hallway with at least one gunshot wound, according to the press release.
—Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for hallway
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hallway
Noun
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Nestled between the venerable Palace Theatre and the iconic Brown Hotel, Theater Square in downtown Louisville help revitalize the Broadway-Fourth Street corridor in the mid-1980s with storefronts, performances and colorful features.—
Leo Bertucci,
Louisville Courier Journal,
9 Aug. 2025
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The agreement pledges to create a major transit corridor in the region that will be named the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity, according to the Associated Press.—
Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Aug. 2025
Noun
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In the church foyer, the medics poured milk on their eyes to stop the burning.—
Lily Kepner,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
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The entrance features a grand, double-height foyer through a set of custom wood doors and a staircase with an iron raining that wraps up to the second floor.—
Emma Reynolds,
Forbes.com,
17 July 2025
Noun
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Speed through the terminal was a focus with separate check-in kiosk areas and assistance desks near the parking deck passageway and also on the ground level for those without a bag to check.—
Ramsey Qubein,
Forbes.com,
3 Aug. 2025
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Serving as a passageway during breathing, While not a complete list, the leading causes of dysphonia include the following.—
Colleen Doherty,
Verywell Health,
5 July 2025
Noun
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Glenn Ligon’s 2007 neon work Give Us a Poem will appear in the lobby; Houston Conwill’s The Joyful Mysteries, 1984, will occupy the second floor.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
6 Aug. 2025
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The gun then killed LePatner, an executive at the big financial firm Blackstone, who was in the lobby at 6:30 likely heading home to her own husband, teen daughter and seventh grader son.—
Orlando Sentinel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
6 Aug. 2025
Noun
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First aid is located on the main concourse across from Section 116.—
Ed Masley,
AZCentral.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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Both spaces are located in the airport’s A concourse.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
4 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Wednesday returns to the Gothic halls of Nevermore Academy, where fresh foes and woes await.—
DeVonne Goode,
Parents,
7 Aug. 2025
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Wednesday season 2 unleashed its first four episodes on August 6, introducing many new characters to the shadowy halls of Nevermore Academy.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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“Hallway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hallway. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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