passageway

Example Sentences

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Iran has also threatened to control or close the Bab al-Mandeb Strait External link, another narrow passageway that controls sea traffic toward the Suez Canal.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

The main focus for traders, he said, is traffic through the crucial maritime passageway, the Strait of Hormuz.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 23, 2026

Iran has effectively paralyzed the Strait of Hormuz, a passageway where a fifth of global oil supplies usually transits.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

I had been travelling alone and was checking my route home in a passageway, when suddenly I felt someone looming over me.

From BBC • Nov. 14, 2025

He charged past me, using the sides of the narrow passageway as a makeshift crutch as he hobbled on his bad leg.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin