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Example sentences for "corridor"

Lexicographically close words:
correspondents; corresponding; correspondingly; corresponds; corrida; corridors; corrie; corriendo; corries; corroborate
  1. At the end of the corridor she found Susannah, pale, wringing her hands, outside a door which, however, she made no attempt to enter.

  2. They followed him, turning to the right down a long corridor not so brightly lit as the hall had been.

  3. Standing in the corridor of his private car as it lay in the North-Western station in Chicago, we heard Dr.

  4. Several of the prisoners who had been walking up and down the corridor stopped in amazement on seeing Schrank on his knees, but quietly walked away until he had finished.

  5. Her husband had turned the flame of the lamp low down in the vacant room behind them; the corridor was lit obscurely by the chandelier far down in the hall below.

  6. The steps came nearer, and trembling with horror the fugitive glanced upward to see that two windows were illumined, and there was light enough to show that the door leading into the corridor was open.

  7. He had heard a cry, and hurrying across the office, he locked the door, and ran down the glass corridor to the house.

  8. Then he leaned against the wall in the corridor and chuckled.

  9. I watched her spraddle down the aisle and out through the little corridor before I dared risk the accident of a backward turn of that funny green hat.

  10. And, by Jove, just then the excitement came, for I got hold of the fact after I had stared at it a while, that the door of my apartment opening into the outer corridor was standing ajar.

  11. Then suddenly the broad streak of light from the corridor widened under the impulse of a freshening breeze, and the door swung open with a bang.

  12. I stepped into the outer corridor and explained the situation.

  13. She stood still for a moment in the long corridor and looked disconsolately to right and to left of her.

  14. Evelyn ran down the corridor which led to her uncle's room.

  15. She ran down the corridor where often, when in her best moments, she had gone to talk to him, to pet him, to love him.

  16. He was so late that she thought he must have reached his room unheard, and toward midnight she tip-toed along the corridor to his door.

  17. And then there is a complete stagnation of the power of speech on both sides for the space of five minutes, during which the clock ticking steadily on at the far end of the corridor has things entirely its own way.

  18. Presently a door at the further end of the corridor softly opens and shuts, and Mr. Pryme looks up quickly.

  19. I didn't discover he was in town until I ran across him in the corridor this evening.

  20. But Cynthia had learned that the corridor was not the place for a girl, so she explained--to Jethro that he would find her in the parlor if he wanted her, and that she was going there to read.

  21. She shrank closer to Ephraim from a perfumed lady who sat next to her in the car, and was thankful when at last they found themselves in the corridor of the Astor House standing before the desk.

  22. At this point the senator could not control his mirth, and the empty corridor echoed his laughter.

  23. He seemed preoccupied, and heedless of the salutations he received; but when he caught sight of Jethro he crossed the corridor rapidly and sat down beside him.

  24. Ephraim was in the corridor regaling his friend, Mr. Beard, with that wonderful encounter with General Grant which sounded so much like a Fifth Reader anecdote of a chance meeting with royalty.

  25. The corridor was deserted now, save for the two.

  26. Feet were in the House corridor now, and voices rising there, and noises that must have been scuffling--yes, and beating of door panels.

  27. He rose, unfolding by degrees his six feet two, and strode diagonally across the corridor toward the band leader.

  28. But he saw a young man of short stature, with a freckled face and close-cropped, curly red hair, come into the corridor by another entrance; he saw Isaac D.

  29. Jethro smiled and squeezed her arm again, and then they were in the corridor of the famous Pelican Hotel, hazy with cigar smoke and filled with politicians.

  30. As has been said, there were but few visitors in Washington at this time, and the hotel corridor was all but empty.

  31. In the dark corridor Peredonov met another police constable, a small, meagre man of capable yet depressed appearance.

  32. In the corridor the Ear of Corn rushed at the Geisha again and caught hold of her dress.

  33. Circumstances helped him: his last lesson was in a class-room whose door opened into the corridor where the clock hung and where the school porter, an alert ex-sergeant, rang the bell at stated intervals.

  34. As he walked through the corridor he stopped outside the Gymnasium hall for a while, and then walked in with bent head.

  35. It isn't pleasant to sit alone in the corridor with the men--staring at you--at night.

  36. This man, wishing at once to assert his authority, ordered me in a brutal tone to strip where I stood, on a stone floor in a cold corridor where there was a terrible draught from the open windows.

  37. Then he was led into an underground corridor where he was ushered into one dark chamber, and his comrade Maroncelli into another at some distance.

  38. Gavin could hear the sound of his footsteps long afterwards, passing from corridor to corridor of the great bare house; but the words he had spoken lingered and were echoed, as though by a spirit of vengeance moving in the room.

  39. He passed out into the bare stone corridor leading to the banqueting hall.

  40. They had strolled together down the corridor and witnessed the Earl enter the sick man's room, and now a sharp sound of voices almost in anger came up to them.

  41. The salle was a parade-room, a place to pass through, a corridor where no one lingered.

  42. Almost at the same instant Monsieur issued from the room adjoining the corridor and ordered his daughter to enter the Queen's room.

  43. It looked like rain, so we hastily checked our parasols and Jimmie's stick and cut down the left corridor to the stairs, and so on down to the chamber where we left Jimmie and the Tiber to stare each other out of countenance.

  44. He waited here in the corridor until he heard voices.

  45. They tried to burst open the strong doors communicating with the corridor leading to the Czar's apartments.

  46. At the extreme end of the corridor was the picture of a saint.

  47. Prince Ghedimin, meanwhile, hastily descended the secret staircase and passed into a masked corridor leading from his palace into the next house.

  48. The Czar passed, alone, down the long corridor hung with pictures of the battles he had fought.

  49. Ivan Maximovitch Ghedimin really did pass through the corridor into his grandmother's apartments.

  50. A tributary glacier joined the Aletsch from our right--a long corridor filled with ice, and covered by the purest snow.

  51. To our left a second long ice-corridor stretched up to the Loetsch saddle, which hung like a chain between the opposing mountains.

  52. A corridor opening on to the court-yard was flanked on each side by a row of open, white cells, each well lighted by a fair-sized window during the day, and by electricity at night.

  53. He pointed to a row of metal magnetic tabs clinging to the wall nearest the corridor that led to the airlock.

  54. I stood in the corridor looking for Burgard.

  55. I followed from the smoking-room across a wide corridor into a riding- school, under whose roof the voices of the few hundred assembled wandered in lost echoes.

  56. The corridor was empty, but several office doors opened on it, and on one of them she saw Charlie Brady's name.

  57. Seeing me standing at the window in the corridor looking at the oil-cars, my young companion of the steel-tyred auto came out of his compartment and moved up beside me.

  58. They mounted the wide stairs to the corridor above, with bedrooms opening off on each side.

  59. I went out in the corridor to get some air, and I went in the wrong door, by mistake.

  60. Although I saw the beginning of the corridor on the east, I was unable to enter it, as it was quite filled with rubbish, and I have only inferred its junction with the chamber containing the sarcophagus which passes for David's Tomb.

  61. Inside the monolith is a sepulchral chamber connected with the corridor from the Tomb of S.

  62. In the south wall of the vestibule is a square door, leading into a corridor connected with the monument on the south.

  63. Without this chapel, and within the cloisters, is a wide corridor leading round the new building and also the older building of the monument aforesaid, suited for a procession.

  64. He was to walk down the corridor and out of the hotel precisely as the young Engineer would walk out.

  65. Outside in the corridor were heard sounds of hammering; the box was being made ready.

  66. Stepping out into the corridor he turned the knob and walked into the dressing-room.


  67. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "corridor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    access; adit; airline; airway; aisle; alley; ambulatory; aperture; approach; arcade; area; artery; avenue; belt; channel; cloister; colonnade; communication; conduit; confines; connection; corridor; country; defile; department; district; division; entrance; entry; environs; exit; ferry; ford; gallery; gangplank; gangway; ground; gully; hall; hinterland; ingress; inlet; intake; interchange; intersection; junction; land; lane; lobby; milieu; neighborhood; opening; outlet; overpass; part; parts; pass; passage; passageway; path; pergola; place; portico; precincts; premises; purlieus; quarter; salient; section; soil; space; terrain; territory; tunnel; underpass; vestibule; vicinity; way