How to Use passageway in a Sentence

passageway

noun
  • And sometimes it'll get sucked back in the air passageway and choke them.
    — Kelly Ward, The Courier-Journal, 5 June 2018
  • On her first day, she is led down a long passageway to her room, which faces an open door across the hall.
    — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2021
  • As in the past, there is no hall here, but an open passageway that links a series of rooms.
    — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 18 Oct. 2017
  • There is a secret passageway that leads from the Palace to a bar.
    — Marie Claire Editors, Marie Claire, 3 Oct. 2021
  • And that first trip down the passageway will be a lot more exciting.
    — Matt Meltzer, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 June 2017
  • Caleb then finds a trap door in the wall, leading to a secret passageway.
    — De Elizabeth, Teen Vogue, 21 June 2017
  • But not too long ago, the balance of this passageway was under threat.
    — Bill Frist, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
  • Inside the gate is a narrow brick passageway, lined with old posters.
    — Brett Martin, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The kitchen has a passageway to the dining room through the butler's pantry.
    — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Floyd gets wedged in a too-tight passageway and pinned by a rockslide that crushes his foot.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2025
  • That rough surf marks the edge of a passageway through the reef, like an entry ramp into the open ocean.
    — Pam Leblanc, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 May 2022
  • The passageway was first found in the 1930s.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Any pipe might be a passageway, any seeming dead end a secret route through a level.
    — Literary Hub, 11 Feb. 2026
  • An arched passageway off the living room leads to a nicely sized dining room and kitchen.
    — Katie McDonough, Curbed, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Any entrances to malls or other passageways must be closed to the public.
    — Sarah Hauer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 May 2020
  • That’s a problem since the cervix is the passageway for your baby during birth.
    — Zahra Barnes, SELF, 19 Sep. 2019
  • The ship had no inner passageway so Sawchik had to make his way across the outer decks.
    — Brian Albrecht, cleveland.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Much of the old market, whose narrow passageways became a hide-out for rebels, lies burned and bombed.
    — Anne Barnard, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2016
  • But sometimes the crooked wall partially blocks one of the passageways.
    — Gwen Rockwood The Rockwood Files, arkansasonline.com, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Your kids will learn how the passageways were slowly formed over time millions of years ago as dinosaurs roamed the earth.
    — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 12 July 2019
  • Four dry ones in the dining room and another two in the passageway at the restroom.
    — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 26 Feb. 2018
  • The rest of the event consisted of wide rooms and passageways divided by black tarps.
    — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The former passageway that once led from the street to the patio at the rear of the house has also been transformed.
    — Nicolas Milon, Architectural Digest, 8 July 2024
  • The strait is a critical passageway for the world’s oil and natural gas.
    — Mae Anderson, Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2026
  • Witkus led him to a passageway whose windowed doors, on either end, could be locked remotely.
    — James Verini, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
  • At the other end of the bar was the curtained hatch to the back kitchen, then the sorrowful passageway to the jacks.
    — Kevin Barry, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Croup swells the upper area of the passageways— lungs are a separate issue.
    — Melissa Willets, Parents, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The procedure enlarges the passageway where the spinal nerve exits the spinal canal.
    — Dave Clark, Cincinnati.com, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Many of the cave’s passageways have been submerged in floodwaters and Capt.
    — Char Adams, PEOPLE.com, 3 July 2018
  • Diners enter through a passageway lined with tiles that range across a spectrum of indigo to ocean blue.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2026

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