How to Use hallway in a Sentence

hallway

noun
  • I'll meet you in the front hallway.
  • Her office is at the end of the hallway.
  • By the time the doors opened, the line snaked down the hallway.
    — Clare Hymes, CBS News, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Deputies ask if the rooms along the hallway have been checked.
    — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2023
  • But though the hallways are the same, times have changed.
    — Taryn Brooke, Allure, 20 June 2024
  • On the way out, the man taped a flyer to a wall in the hallway.
    — Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 19 June 2024
  • Which hallway was the fastest route to their first class?
    — Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The west end of the third-floor hallway was, at one time, drenched.
    — Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Feet from us, in the hallway outside the locked doors, the crowd on the third floor had grown.
    — Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • In the hallway, Shota’s grinding his shoe against the wall.
    — Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Or, pick up a baby and sing it to sleep in the hallway.
    — Eva Wiseman, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2023
  • And what’s with that door at the end of the hallway that seems to open by itself?
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 7 Sep. 2022
  • The scared kids step over fresh blood and then jostle in the hallway….
    — Sophie Pinkham, The New York Review of Books, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Alexzandria was found in a hallway and died at the scene.
    — CBS News, 26 Oct. 2022
  • His screams from the holding area could be heard in court as the door to the hallway closed.
    — George Chidi, Rolling Stone, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The hallway connects the open dining lounge and powder room to the rest of the home.
    — Carisha Swanson, House Beautiful, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Keane could see the woman on a stretcher in the E.R. hallway.
    — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024
  • As the family made their way out, the staff filled the hallways and cheered.
    — Brian Brant, Peoplemag, 15 Sep. 2023
  • In the hallway, Dwight finds Stacy, who is not in a good way.
    — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 29 Sep. 2024
  • My son and his friend shared a room, and my daughter and her friend had to sleep in the hallway.
    — Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 23 July 2024
  • The sun shot right down the hallway, hitting the monolith and the stone marker.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2023
  • And for the most part, the jail hallways and walls will not be full of holiday cheer.
    — Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Drone Home Media The secondary bedroom is at the end of the hallway and fills this side of the unit.
    — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2023
  • The hallway was packed with people who loved, cared for, and worked with Sanders, 59.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 25 June 2024
  • Jackson found his body in the hallway, with the apartment door ajar.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 16 Dec. 2023
  • In the hallway, a crowd clustered in front of the photo tribute to her.
    — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2023
  • The boy got upset, left the classroom anyway and broke a desk in the hallway.
    — Jennifer Smith Richards and Jodi S. Cohen, Chicago Tribune, 17 Dec. 2022
  • On the east end of the hallway, where teacher Scott Beigel, 35, died, the stains are not as pronounced.
    — Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Completing the first floor are a half bath and a hallway that accesses the backyard and attached oversized two-car garage.
    — James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Off the kitchen, there’s a mesmerizing lucite dog-run, in the dining room there’s a cat tree, and the best spot for storage seems to be a hallway, which is stacked with plastic bins.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 6 Mar. 2025

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