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

It developed a state-of-the-art oceanic passageway that helped transform global shipping as supertankers and containerships grew bigger and bigger.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 13, 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

Once inside Ford’s, Booth wanted to cross behind the stage to the other side of the building where a door led to a narrow passageway that ran to the front of the theater.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson