Examples of passageway in a Sentence
the passageway to the other side of the office
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Or, that the workers in the maze of passageways are people who entered the PATH, got lost and couldn’t find their way out.
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Vivian Song, CNN Money, 17 Feb. 2026
Gateway is modified to first repair the old 1910 tunnel immediately and construct a more economical new tunnel (without expensive and unneeded bench walls and cross-connecting passageways) and link it directly into Penn Station.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 16 Feb. 2026
The home was likely used as a safe house for enslaved people fleeing the South, and the passageway’s design reflects careful planning to keep that purpose hidden from anyone who might come looking.
—Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2026
Museum staff have known about the existence of the passageway since the 1930s.
—Jeana Fermi, ABC News, 13 Feb. 2026
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Vivian Song, CNN Money, 17 Feb. 2026
Gateway is modified to first repair the old 1910 tunnel immediately and construct a more economical new tunnel (without expensive and unneeded bench walls and cross-connecting passageways) and link it directly into Penn Station.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 16 Feb. 2026
The home was likely used as a safe house for enslaved people fleeing the South, and the passageway’s design reflects careful planning to keep that purpose hidden from anyone who might come looking.
—Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2026
Museum staff have known about the existence of the passageway since the 1930s.
—Jeana Fermi, ABC News, 13 Feb. 2026
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“Passageway.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/passageway. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.
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passageway
noun
pas·sage·way
-ˌwā 
: a road or way by which a person or thing may pass
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