passageway

Example Sentences

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Their aim is to deny Tehran control over the strait, a narrow, 21-mile-wide passageway through which a fifth of global energy supplies flows.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026

We began the much-needed East Side Access project and rebuilt the Penn 33rd Street Corridor, the main passageway inside the station to the Long Island Rail Road, making that section brighter and more spacious.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

The assumed resumption in the flow of maritime traffic through the passageway was good news for the U.S. stock market and helped ease concerns over a global shortage of oil.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026

Many of the ships currently moving through the 104-mile-long passageway are so-called “shadow fleet External link” vessels.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

Together they carried the little witch into the dark passageway that led backstage.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling