Corridor
['kɒrɪdɔː] or ['kɔrɪdɔr]
Definition
(n.) A gallery or passageway leading to several apartments of a house.
(n.) The covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place.
Editor: Pasquale
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Gallery, passage.
Editor: Paula
Definition
n. a passage-way or open gallery communicating with separate chambers.—n. Corr′idor-train a train in which one can pass along from one carriage to another without having to leave the train.
Editor: Pratt
Examples
- Miss Verinder followed me out into the corridor. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He held something in his two hands that looked like a freshly skinned rabbit and hurried across the corridor with it and in through another door. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The smoke from the fire was forcing me further and further back down the corridor toward the waters which I could hear surging through the darkness. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I staggered to my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding stair. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I was the last to leave the chamber of the submarine, and as I followed the rear of the column toward the corridor, I moved through water to my knees. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- You were satisfied that he could not have been concealed in the room all the time, or in the corridor which you have just described as dimly lighted? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- As to the second corridor, he went on. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I hastened on as rapidly as I dared through the darkness until I reached the point at which they had left the corridor. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- She put her hand into her husband's, and they went along the broad corridor together. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- On the other hand, the entrance to the corridor stands open. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Now we both rushed along the corridor and down the steep steps which led to Charles Street. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Before I could answer, she came out eagerly to speak to me in the corridor. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It came from a torch in the hand of one of a party of four green warriors, who were coming rapidly down the corridor toward me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- There were many men standing in the corridor and the men in the compartment all looked at us when we came in. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- As we were about to leave the pool and enter the corridor, an officer called my attention to the waters upon which the submarine floated. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Then he commenced groping his way about the floor of the dark chamber searching for the trap that led to the corridors beneath. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- And their long-departed owners seemed to throng the gloomy cells and corridors with their phantom shapes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Presently I came to a place where five corridors diverged from a common point. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Presently we approached a great chamber more brightly lighted than the corridors. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- There was no one in the corridors, Mr. Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Slipping quietly through this opening I discovered a maze of winding corridors, branching and turning in every direction. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Slowly we moved through endless corridors of unthinkable beauty; through magnificent apartments, and noble halls. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- And at least you go through wide corridors and have the scent of rose-leaves everywhere. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The Captain had lighted upon her in a half-hundred of corridors and passages. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- We had about reached the last of the many chambers and corridors which led to the gardens when an officer overtook us. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The corridors at Hurlstone have their walls largely decorated with trophies of old weapons. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I dared not attempt to halt in the darkness of any of the many intersecting corridors, for I knew nothing of the direction they might take. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- They seldom traverse the underworld at night, for then it is that the great banths prowl the dim corridors seeking their prey. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- They had me surrounded at the intersection of two corridors. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The way led through a maze of tortuous corridors, unlighted save for the wavering light they carried. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
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