passageway

as in corridor
a typically long narrow way connecting parts of a building the passageway to the other side of the office

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Recent Examples of passageway The square, no longer just a passageway, becomes a true urban oasis. Adam Williams, New Atlas, 24 Nov. 2024 But sometimes the crooked wall partially blocks one of the passageways. Gwen Rockwood The Rockwood Files, arkansasonline.com, 3 Oct. 2024 The passageway—known as the Vasari Corridor—connects Florence’s lush Boboli Gardens to the world-famous Uffizi Galleries, an art museum boasting works such as Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus and Caravaggio’s Medusa. Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Jan. 2025 Over time, new buildings kept attaching to others like barnacles, so façades had second careers as interior walls, windows turned into hallways, and passageways became bathrooms. Justin Davidson, Curbed, 10 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for passageway 
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Noun
  • The same storm system will move into the Northeast on Friday, bringing rain to the Interstate 95 corridor and the potential for ice and snow to higher elevations in Pennsylvania, New York and New England.
    Max Golembo, ABC News, 29 Jan. 2025
  • The Interstate 70 corridor through the Eastern Plains could also see up to 1 inch of snow per hour Thursday morning, while up to half an inch per hour is forecast for the southern Foothills.
    Katie Langford, The Denver Post, 29 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Just about every day, Marian Catholic’s Taylor Bolton walks past a series of large photos on a wall in a hallway near the gym that commemorate the school’s postseason accomplishments.
    Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Earlier this week, the administration pulled down photographs of children and families from the agency’s hallways.
    Brett Murphy, ProPublica, 31 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Raffle tickets are $10 and will be available on the concourse by Section 10.
    Ryan Finley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Jan. 2025
  • The San Jose Firefighters Burn Foundation will have an information table on the concourse during the game and will display the jerseys.
    Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2025

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“Passageway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/passageway. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.

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