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How to use passageway in a sentence

17 example sentences · noun

Passageway means a covered walkway, between rooms or buildings. Example: “Seen in plan, the building had numerous passageways not apparent to visitors.”

Examples of passageway by meaning

nounA covered walkway, between rooms or buildings.

  • The door of the twins' room opposite was open; a twenty-watt night-light threw a weak yellow glow into the passageway.1994, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Hippopotamus

nounAny way for passing in, out or through something.

  • The units have transverse seats, two and three astride the passageway with single or double longitudinal seats alongside the two entrance vestibules in each car.1960 November, “New electric multiple-units for British Railways: Glasgow Suburban”, in Trains Illustrated, page 660

More sentences with passageway

  • Seen in plan, the building had numerous passageways not apparent to visitors.From the entry plan
  • The obese woman couldn't ease her bulk through the narrow passageway.From the entry bulk
  • The passageway was so tight we could barely get through.From the entry tight
  • Those were the “hyphens,” the passageways that connected the wings of the mansion to its center.2012, James M Cain, The Cocktail Waitress. From the entry hyphen
  • She opened the door and looked out into the broad passageway between the wings of the demountable.2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 31. From the entry demountable
  • In every passageway where the passengers’ cabins are situated, there is a steward’s station.1961, J P de Haan, Practical shipbuilding: B, A manual for the construction of seagoing merchant ships and war-ships, from series Ships…. From the entry slop shoot
  • Xiaomen Islet is located in the north of Hsiyu, away from a 20-meter wide water passageway, and connected to a bridge.(Can we date this quote?), “Attractions”, in 台灣地質公園網絡 [Taiwan Geoparks Network], archived from the original on 26 Oct 2022. From the entry Hsiyu
  • As he yucked his guts up mere feet from the little passageway, all of John's shame came crumbling down upon him.2021, Glenn Rolfe, August's Eyes. From the entry yuck
  • There is a support in the middle of this passageway to make sure the ceiling doesn't fall down on us.2012, Robert Butler, After the Snow Began to Fall, →ISBN, page 55. From the entry fall down on
  • Several members cast it as an either-or issue, pitting the form of the headhouse against the function of the passageway.2007 January 8, William Neuman, “Planners Clash Over Transit Hub, and Riders Win”, in New York Times. From the entry headhouse
  • Down a hundred swordlengths or so there is an additional passageway, which leads to the barracks for the Sword of Koth.1999, Jerry Ahern, Sharon Ahern, The Golden Shield of IBF, Baen Books, →ISBN, page 324. From the entry swordlength
  • A klatsch of women too busy watching to notice the rescue operation in progress swarmed over the path leading to the guest cottages, essentially swallowing up the passageway.2014, Dianne Drake, Firefighter With A Frozen Heart. From the entry klatsch
  • Geographically, the Prahova River separates the Eastern Carpathians from the Southern range and, historically, the valley was an important passageway between the principalities of Wallachia and Transylvania.2013, Lucy Mallows, Rudolf Abraham, Transylvania (Bradt Travel Guide), 2nd edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 137. From the entry Prahova
  • Finally he took me up some rickety steps into a men's dosshouse where cell-like rooms led off a passageway equipped with a washbasin and a coolchest of cans of Coke.2006, Sheila Paine, The Afghan Amulet: Travels from the Hindu Kush. From the entry coolchest
  • In locating the ice well by the dwelling, dig the pit at least 5 feet away from the house and connect the two structures with a covered passageway or pantry.1939, Howard Franklin McColly, The Ice Well Refrigerator [booklet], Agricultural Experiment Station, North Dakota Agricultural College…. From the entry ice well

Meaning of passageway

  1. noun A covered walkway, between rooms or buildings.
  2. noun Any way for passing in, out or through something.

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Questions about passageway in a sentence

How do you use passageway in a sentence?
Passageway is used as a noun. For example: “Seen in plan, the building had numerous passageways not apparent to visitors.”
What is a short sentence with passageway?
“The passageway was so tight we could barely get through.”
What does passageway mean?
Passageway means a covered walkway, between rooms or buildings.

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