passageway - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • block: However they come in useful for ' editing ' a maze, such as by blocking a passageway.
  • cover: Door to a covered side passageway with a door giving access to the front garden.
  • find: On its right we find instead a small passageway with access to the closet and the large kitchen.
  • have: They have a passageway into the back of the nose through tunnels in the bones of the face.
  • connect: The entrance shaft enters a complex of stopes and connecting passageways totalling almost 400m in length.
  • create: Over the years the gallery has been encased into another end wall design thus creating a passageway behind.

Preposition: at

  • back: In the 16th century a central chimneystack was inserted making an unusual passageway at the back.

Converse of subject

  • connect: The theater and the Garrick Head Hotel are connected by a passageway, the purpose of which is unknown.

Preposition: between

  • house: The space is vented to the passageway between the houses.
  • building: GM They hurried through the dark, dripping passageway between the buildings.

Adjective modifier

  • narrow: There will be a narrow passageway down to the plane.
  • underground: The interconnection tunnel I was standing in seemed to have a larger diameter than a standard underground station foot passageway.
  • secret: I didn't realize that there was a secret passageway.
  • hidden: Perhaps there were hidden passageways leading back into history.
  • dark: There are many reports of a ghost haunting the dark passageways of the Fort.
  • internal: A lockable internal passageway links The Haven with The Stables giving ideal accommodation for parties or multiple families.

Noun used with modifier

  • air: The nasal cavity is the air passageway through which air passes to the throat during breathing.
  • side: Door to a covered side passageway with a door giving access to the front garden.
  • entrance: The main rift continues from the entrance passageway and is reached by a climb up the right hand wall and onto a ledge.
  • stone: They found themselves in a stone passageway with a floor slanted upward.

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