How to Use way station in a Sentence

way station

noun
  • His songs were a balmy way station.
    — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The hotel is just a way station, though.
    — ABC News, 28 May 2026
  • Lviv is a way station as much as a new home for the displaced.
    — Loveday Morris, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Mar. 2022
  • In the eastern town of Pokrovsk, a church has become a way station.
    — Washington Post, 7 May 2022
  • Manhattan was but a way station.
    — Mark Rozzo, Vanity Fair, 12 June 2026
  • Most camps worldwide are still built as temporary way stations.
    — Nina Strochlic, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
  • But college for me was not a way station to a career in tech, finance, or consulting.
    — Chris Hughes, Town & Country, 10 July 2018
  • Laya is one of the principal way stations along the Snowman Trek.
    — Chris Jones, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2020
  • College for them was only a way station, a sort of youthful diversion.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 June 2023
  • Winds are high as the group approaches its Greenland way station, and the landings are dicey.
    — Chris Klimek, Vulture, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Every ten miles or so, there will be a little way station, a humble gite-d’etape to sit and rest, get water from a spring.
    — Christopher Ketcham, The New Republic, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Groups of people headed for the border came to this way station, then made their way to the border once darkness fell.
    — Maria E. Andreu, Teen Vogue, 18 June 2018
  • On a Friday night, the bar feels like a mere way station for hordes waiting to be seated in the dining room.
    — Samantha Melamed, Philly.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Once the bastion of the privileged few, the campus soon came to be seen as a way station along the road to the middle class.
    — New York Times, 13 May 2022
  • The square is a major way station for commuters and a place where day laborers gather in the hopes of picking up work.
    — Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2018
  • The building is a way station of sorts, one where products are inventoried after their use.
    — John Otis, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The person, and the conversation with then, is a beautiful way station on your route.
    — Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The players now occupy a room that looks more like a clubhouse and less like a way station for athletes waiting to catch a bus.
    — Henry Schulman, SFChronicle.com, 16 June 2019
  • The next year, Yeltsin tapped him as prime minister, a way station to the presidency.
    — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
  • Death watch, once a lonely way station, has begun to resemble an assembly line.
    — Pamela Colloff, ProPublica, 30 June 2026
  • That structure could serve as a kind of way station between the Earth and the Red Planet.
    — Calla Cofield, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2017
  • In The Passenger home is but way stations in hopeless transit.
    — Joy Williams, Harper's Magazine, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The problem is that this way station, in an orbit far from the lunar surface, really isn’t on the way to anywhere.
    — Ars Technica, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Fill the saucer with water for the birds, or add gravel along with a little water to create a way station for thirsty butterflies.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The French islanders were happy to have their big harbor transformed into a way station for southbound booze.
    — Marc Wortman, Smithsonian, 17 Jan. 2018
  • For the eight people buried here — all of them his clients— the field was the final stop in a country that was only ever supposed to be a way station.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2020
  • The airport in Kabul has become a chaotic way station with scenes of pathos, writes Bulos.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2021
  • The first free ports were established in early modern Europe as way stations for goods like grain, coffee, or spices.
    — Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, Longreads, 29 May 2018
  • In the months after, hundreds of migrants flowed to a UN way station for refugees approved to leave the country.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Dec. 2019
  • War has turned Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, from a regional center into a way station.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2022

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