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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hallway
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
dark
▪ The flat is rudely a furnished bedroom at the end of a dark hallway on the twenty-second floor of a downtown highrise.
▪ I was led down the dark hallway to a room in which a gas jet was burning.
▪ Anne closed the guest-room door and, in the dark hallway, she reached out for George's familiar arms.
▪ I think he liked his room but did not like the dark hallway.
▪ Minna had disappeared in the dark hallway where the rugs were piled on top of each other.
long
▪ The door was opened and Evelyn stood framed against a long hallway.
▪ A half-block-#long hallway lined with white marble columns, arches and artwork.
▪ From it stretched a long, wide hallway with five flat, rectangular wings jutting to each side.
▪ His glinting nails swish and clink as he chases me down a long hallway hung with pictures of CEOs.
▪ A flash as far away as the horizon lit for an instant long hallways of clouds.
▪ You just have to be willing to walk down a long hallway and know where to look.
narrow
▪ The narrow hallway was littered with old newspapers and circulars.
▪ With the man holding her from behind, we moved slowly, agonizingly slowly, along the narrow hallway.
■ VERB
lead
▪ It led to a hallway, with stairs going up on the left.
▪ I was led down the dark hallway to a room in which a gas jet was burning.
▪ With damp palms he opened the door that led up into the hallway.
▪ Jess stands up and walks across the court, under the basket and over to an open door leading to the hallway.
▪ He remained there for a few seconds then slowly got to his feet and moved to the door leading into the hallway.
move
▪ As he moved into the darkened hallway he could see those conifers bowing deferentially to the strong breeze.
▪ There were traces of early light as he moved down the hallway to the kitchen.
▪ She stepped aside and I moved into the hallway.
▪ Bobby took my arm and the two of us moved out into the hallway.
▪ There was no answer, and after a second he nodded at Ruth and moved unsteadily down the hallway to the bedroom.
▪ Maybe instead, partly curious, partly something else, she moved down the hallway to the bedroom.
stand
▪ He was standing in a small hallway.
▪ The apartment door was already standing open and the hallway smelled of stale smoke.
▪ I stood in the hallway, fearful that Meir Ahronson would ask me for an account of how I had fared.
▪ He stood in the hallway puffing on it for a few seconds to make sure it was fully alight.
▪ A young man looked at Ozzie, who was standing in the hallway, smiling, in his shirt and dusty Jeans.
▪ Patrick suddenly found himself standing in the hallway, his heart tripping frantically, his breathing too fast to be comfortable.
▪ I stood in the hallway, listening.
walk
▪ Pascoe walked down the hallway, still feeling a little light-headed.
▪ We had to square corners as we walked in the hallways.
▪ As you walk the hallways, with their institutional floors and smudged walls, you can be transported half way around the world.
▪ I walked down the hallway, dragging my backpack behind me, to my old bedroom.
▪ You just have to be willing to walk down a long hallway and know where to look.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A door slammed and footfalls hammered the hallway floor.
▪ Coats on hooks in the hallway.
▪ I watched the hallways for some glimpse of Carolyn passing by.
▪ Matching moulding I want to get some more moulding to match that in my hallway.
▪ Our communal phone is on the hallway wall by the front door.
▪ The bedsheet white of the hallway was an anxious white I knew by heart.
▪ The rooms are small for so many people; sound carries easily down the front stairwells and inner hallways.
▪ They took off their shoes in the front hallway.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
hallway

hallway \hall"way\ n. an interior passage or corridor in a building, onto which rooms open.

Syn: hall.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hallway

1877, American English, from hall + way (n.).

Wiktionary
hallway

n. A corridor in a building that connects rooms.

WordNet
hallway

n. an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open; "the elevators were at the end of the hall" [syn: hall]

Wikipedia
Hallway (disambiguation)

''' Hallway is a term for hall.

Hallway may also refer to:

Usage examples of "hallway".

Petrie stumbled forward with Prickles on his back, urgently pushing Adelaide in front of him, he could see nothing through his facemask but a torrential swarm of furry bodies, filling the hallway and writhing on the stairs.

What struck me most about his book-lined apartment in Kiryat Arba was how badly the paint in the hallway had peeled and how tall the trees were in the front yard.

He unlocked an outer door and went through an archlike hallway that led him to a tiny courtyard.

Three servants were springing into sight when Atlee flung himself across the lower hallway, to reach a closet.

I was standing in a short hallway, but the kitchen was just around the corner, a spacious pale yellow room with a backsplash of blue and white Mexican tile.

He passed people in the outer hallways without wincing from them and headed down the backswept stairway to the second floor where his rooms were.

He turned then and noticed the open door he obviously had, in his befuddlement, neglected to close, let alone lock, the private idiocies, discomfitures of these last few hours on public exhibit for hallway creeps dragging their fungoid flesh to and from the reeking stall opposite the stairwell, how acute his embarrassment had his faculties been intact, when would this life ever mend?

The fallen officers blocked the door from closing, and as Bengazi reached the last step, he rolled a smoke grenade and then a fragmentation grenade into the hallway.

The Harcourt Biosciences Lab run by Phil Brinker and Ravi Parikh was down the hallway to the left.

Once students and professors crowded the rooms and hallways of this fortress, studying modern irrigation and biotechnical crop engineering.

They sprinted down the hallway and into the foyer, where Blackpool stood, calmly holding the door.

Becky, and a moment later I heard the pounding of shoes on the stairway, and we were joined by Martin Bollinger who greeted the eldest boy with a quick slap to the back of the head and a shove down the hallway, then hurried over to help me up.

As God is my witness, John Branner was murdered in that dark upper hallway, and then his dead body came stalking down the stairs with a hatchet in its hand--to kill me!

A chilly, implacable kind of fury that steadied his hands and straightened his spine, made his crisp footsteps soft along the carpeted hallways.

Then the lock was released, and they entered a wide hallway, elegantly carpeted, small tables dotting it as if items left over, superfluous.