Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: gateway
IPA transcription: [ɡ'eɪtw,eɪ]
Pronunciations of gateway
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: gateway
    Meaning: an entrance that can be closed by a gate
Usage examples
  • before him a noble gateway stood open.
  • A pebble had done it all,--a pebble placed in the gateway by Bela's hands.
  • A small boy came down the road and saw William hesitating at the open gateway.
  • They drove out through the inner gateway and under the echoing gatehouse of the outer court.
  • The only outlet from the road within four times that distance was the gateway leading into Stolliver's house.
  • A glimpse of the river through a dull gateway, where some waggons were housed for the night, seemed to arrest my feet.
  • After some delay--owing to Tony's inability to balance the chafing-dish on Cristoforo Colombo's back--they filed from the gateway, an imposing cavalcade.
  • Except for far-away soldiers who seemed to be carrying wood out of the Palace courtyard and piling it in front of the main gateway, everything was quiet.
  • Up the steep, stony path they rode to the drawbridge and the great gaping gateway of Drachenhausen, where wall and tower and battlement looked darker and more forbidding than ever in the gray twilight of the coming night.
  • The next moment they clattered over the drawbridge that spanned the narrow black gulph between the roadway and the wall, and the next were past the echoing arch of the great gateway and in the gray gloaming of the paved court-yard within.
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