Used in a Sentence

hallways

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for hallways.

Editorial note

The buildings themselves should also be kept small and hallways short to prevent them from becoming streets.

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Quick take

A corridor in a building that connects rooms.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of hallways gathered in one view.

noun

A corridor in a building that connects rooms.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for hallways.

noun

A corridor in a building that connects rooms.

Example sentences

1

The buildings themselves should also be kept small and hallways short to prevent them from becoming streets.

2

My university has clean rooms, they have windows, the hallways have windows too so you can peek in from outside.

3

Related to this: in Japan the school children have to clean the class room and hallways.

4

Think inside of a building where you're shooting around corners or short hallways and you need both eyes open for depth perception.

5

I'm comparing it to Hawthorne, where most people had interior offices and the building had completely interior hallways.

6

He was just this guy, and on occasion I'd talk to him if I saw him in the hallways.

7

For the campus, he's personally designing new doorways and new hallways and prototyping 50 kinds of cafeteria seating and two dozen other things...

8

Also, I wonder how they handle full elevators, or blocked hallways (somebody left a cart in the way, for example)?

9

The array of microphones works great and Echo hears me from very far away (in other rooms out of line of sight, down hallways, etc).

10

At times, walking through the hallways of the new job, I felt like an idiot.

11

Maybe 2-3 women lived under us but we never saw them because the hallways were locked to keep the sexes apart.

12

At some places probably 80% of the idle work-related chatter happens on the IRC/Slack, while at others it happens mostly in the coffee area or hallways.

Quote examples

1

Yes, there have been instances of subsonic standing waves/resonance in hallways that have caused feelings of fear and reports of "ghost" sightings.

2

I just think it's better than the "some offices get windows, some get none, and all hallways get none" alternative I've seen elsewhere in office parks.

3

Thanks to those fire alarms, our emergency plan for a real fire in the dorms was to have someone run through all the hallways shouting "There's actually a fire this time!!!" Sometimes overly secure systems are worse than no security at all.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use hallways in a sentence?

The buildings themselves should also be kept small and hallways short to prevent them from becoming streets.

What does hallways mean?

A corridor in a building that connects rooms.

What part of speech is hallways?

hallways is commonly used as noun.