Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: hallway
IPA transcription: [h'ɔlw,eɪ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: hallway, hall
    Meaning: an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open; "the elevators were at the end of the hall"
Usage examples
  • A faint odor was perceptible, the same odor he had detected in the carpet on the upper hallway of the Langmore mansion.
  • The room inside was something out of a madman's funhouse. It was higher than it was wide, irregular in shape, and more like a hallway than a room.
  • I went on hunting around the house and I found the other half of the handkerchief in a dark corner of the upper hallway, not far from where Mrs. Langmore's body was found."
  • "To the laughing chamber," replied Scollops; and having reached the top of the stairs, they walked down a long hallway and entered a room so odd and pretty that Tot stopped short and gazed at it in astonishment.
  • The young man spun half a dozen times as he reeled across the carpet and he had to use both hands to stop himself against a big onyx table. As he pulled himself up standing he saw that Watkins had lifted the trunk on his shoulders and was headed for the hallway.