How To Use Corridor In A Sentence

Connecticut schools have been fitting yellow intruder alarms next to fire alarms in their corridors and dining halls. Times, Sunday Times
He might have caused a storm in a teacup in the corridors of the Westminster press lobby as journalists squabbled over who had the story, whether it was attributable and who had told The Sun anyway.
The hospital is so overcrowded that some patients are being treated on trolleys in the corridors.
The noises of men talking and laughing and the sound of champagne corks popping filter out into the corridor.
The service is flawless; and every employee you pass in the corridor greets you with the unstudied politeness that is the hallmark of a great hotel.

Along the sixth and seventh floors of the western wing, a glazed corridor extends south beyond the building's edge.
Once properly tagged and escorted, the visitor passes the initial checkpoint and walks along a corridor into the Headquarters Building lobby.
If you happen to wander the corridors around our work areas and see us surfing the Net, rest assured, we aren't goofing off.
I moved down the corridor, as instructed, and rounded the elevators to the bank on the far side.
Walking into its corridors, between the towering whiteness, has the effect, so beloved of the Romantics, of making you feel microcosmic.
With domed hall and cavernous corridors that echoed every step, this felt more like a tomb.
But despite the brocaded swags, ornamental carvings and original works of art here, you won't feel you have to tiptoe down the corridors and talk in whispers.
Quickly grabbing her stuff and clasping the key tightly in her hand she ran upstairs and went to the room at the end of the corridor.
Ryoshi was breathing heavily as she ran through the corridors, her breath coming in hard pants.
The corridor was empty, but the door to the inspector's room was slightly ajar.
Then we spilled out into the corridor, babbling incoherently and the experience that none of us would ever forget came to an end.
Distant creaks and groans echoed eerily along the dark corridors.
The rubberized seal around the hatch began to hiss as air from the corridor was sucked inside.
He felt his heart leap, the pieces falling into place, his eyes already searching the framed map on the wall across the corridor. AMAGANSETT
I offered only a narrow flight corridor that was far from any sensitive areas. Times, Sunday Times
Half a dozen creatures'manlike except for the snakiest necks either had ever seen-came thundering along the corridor, waving spears and shouting. Fortress Of Frost And Fire
I was always amazed by the length and circuitousness of the corridors in the building.
Michael glanced anxiously down the corridor, but Wilfred was nowhere to be seen.
Through the frosted glass she could make out a large person struggling down the corridor. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
In a general sense, the corridor rule states that in order for any life insurance policy to avoid being classified as a MEC, there must be a "corridor" of difference in dollar value between the death benefit and the cash value of the policy. Investopedia.com Headlines
The old building was a labyrinth of dark corridors.
I remember my hesitation in front of Anna's hotel door, and the old man barrelling down the corridor towards me. LOVE YOU MADLY
The system sent staff to the wrong places and many were unable to find the correct loading bays via the maze of corridors. Times, Sunday Times
Eager hints would become rhapsodic proclamations; backstairs whispers would be babbled aloud in the corridors of the complex.
The second Act seemed to be set in a corridor-as-waiting-room typical of many hospitals I have visited, but with the rear wall being a flat of painted forest.
In high-traffic areas, Kastner says he uses modular carpet for high-wear areas and vinyl composition tile for corridors with less traffic.
Similarly we ought perhaps to disclaim any direct connection between the corridor-tombs of the megalithic area and the great _tholoi_ of Crete and the Greek mainland. Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders
The door slid aside when he thumbed a square button beside the panel, but the lights did not come on automatically as they had in the corridor.
Then we are in some windowless corridors, then a temporary radio studio with a large man with orange trousers and an orange scarf. Times, Sunday Times
And no one intervened as they negotiated the next corridor, which doglegged off the first. Death in Winter
Typically, long corridors give access to a room beyond another room. Times, Sunday Times
It embarrassed her to meet strange men in the corridor at night.
Their sovereignty, of course, won't much extend beyond the guardroom at the end of the corridor.
The new function range is connected to all other ranges of abas Business Software such as abas Corridor Controlling, for instance. Undefined
They offered a table in an area resembling a corridor. Times, Sunday Times
Large pivot joint metal blackboards double as partitioning doors to include or exclude the corridor spaces as desired.
ST is also supposed to be looking at this corridor soon and the City may study it again as part of the mayor's plans. There is No Plan for that Corridor « PubliCola
Corridor's platform will allow retailers to inform their customers of precise delivery dates through online links to manufacturers and distributors.
Three tiny girls in pink with big beady eyes can these days be seen running around school corridors in Delhi.
The ability of these cats to travel distances through habitat corridors could enable them to repopulate parts of Arizona and New Mexico, restoring a part of our wildlife heritage that has been missing from this region for over 50 years.
The disruptive behaviour of a small minority of pupils can wreak havoc in the classrooms and corridors.
When the power within her reached its peak, the red nimbus around her expanded to fill the entire corridor.
You will not believe how many elevators you will go lip, how many corridors you will walk down.
The nurses were clustered together in the corridor, giggling about something.
To chat to him your options are to push aside young, excited children, or rush to an enclosed area such as the corridor of staff toilets.
A young porter stood in the corridor, a large laundry basket by his side.
The Corridor is a Southern African Development Community initiative that aims at linking the landlocked countries in the region to the main Namibian sea port of Walvisbay.
Various windows embellish the corridor, with the shape of square, circle, hexagon and octagon.
He scrambled to the floor and was about to dive under the bed when the door swung inwards and the light from the corridor blinded him for a moment.
He lined us all up in the corridor.
On the rails, Amtrak reported 60-minute delays on its Northeast Corridor line.
Number 10 is a rabbit warren of corridors and rooms, and boasts perhaps the most famous front door in the world. The Sun
a smoky corridor
He stepped into the doorway and swung the gun up to cover the corridor.
Young as she was, I was struck, throughout our little tour, with her confidence and courage with the way, in empty chambers and dull corridors, on crooked staircases that made me pause and even on the summit of an old machicolated square tower that made me dizzy, her morning music, her disposition to tell me so many more things than she asked, rang out and led me on. The Turn of the Screw
My worry is that employers need young blood coursing through their corridors to keep things fresh. The Sun
In the corridor were four dirty, ragged bundles, just identifiable as human beings.
The men carried plasma carbines, which were better suited than were rifles to the close combat inside the corridors of space stations and starships.
The occasional guard braved the discomfort for a few minutes before retiring to the cool of the corridors.
And she'd walked off, her rosary beads clattering together all the way down the corridor. IN REAL LIFE
Julie turned and headed back across the landing, down the short corridor towards the office.
Favourite spots for sneaked assignations are empty classrooms, deserted corridors and overgrown lots.
Step a few yards along the main corridor and you find yourself in a glass atrium. Times, Sunday Times
It also emerged that two patients died after long waits on trolleys in hospital corridors in recent weeks. Times, Sunday Times
The group is currently working on gaining protection for the lands and developing corridors that suit species from big cats to tiny voles.
After its passage along corridors and down flights of stairs, it seemed far too faint to rouse a heavily sleeping man. Times, Sunday Times
The wooden floorboards creaked as he walked down the corridor.
Step a few yards along the main corridor and you find yourself in a glass atrium. Times, Sunday Times
The rest of the team will be assembled in their right order in the block corridor.
The hospital corridors overflow with sick and injured people. Times, Sunday Times
Large, intact portions of the Cienega Corridor allow for rain and snowmelt to enter the ground and recharge our drinking water reservoirs.
The battle along the M4 motorway corridor between Reading and Swindon was particularly fierce.
Thereafter, if I passed him in the corridor or on the staircase, those eyes registered no recognition.
Among other illustrious names who have given a brilliance to these alleyed walks and corridors are to be recalled Corneille, Condé, Saint Royal Palaces and Parks of France
Actors playing warders, who were walking with prisoners, were not allowed to walk past other warders walking with prisoners in the corridor.
As I walked down the corridor towards the pitch my studs made that fantastic sound which studs do on a hard surface.
Pro - Israeli forces command the intellectual high ground as well as the corridors of power.
The sort of man who practises imaginary cricket strokes along empty hotel corridors and has a special jacket for afternoon walks. Times, Sunday Times
Never mind, there are plenty of cabins and corridors for me to explore, while teasing the ever-smiling tompot blennies and looking for conger eels.
'No, he was in the corridor, hoovering, when I got up there. YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
Perhaps the corridors should be lined with those people who race out with cold wet sponges during marathons? Times, Sunday Times
I moved briskly toward the Emperor's tower, striding through the corridor toward his private lift, the entrance to which was flanked by two Imperial Guards in crimson robes. This Is Tense
Nearly fifty years ago I sat cross-legged on the floor of what we called the turret room at the end of the long corridor above McDonald Road, and read about Everest in ‘The National Geographic’, and wanted to be a mountaineer. Jacob's Ladder
They named it the Ethnic Corridor (minzu zoulang) and argued that a full understanding of early migration through this pass would shed light on many myths of ethnicity, language, and ritual around Yunnan. 21 The influence of the Di and Qiang nomadic culture was evident in Neolithic relics in Yunnan, revealing the close relationship among Yunnan, Tibet, and Central Asia. 22 Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
Most fantastic and, as it proved, most disastrous of all the follies of Versailles, was the creation of the free city of Danzig and what was called the Polish Corridor. The Shape of Things to Come
When the elevator doors next opened, it was to a corridor identical to the one Elvis and Lucifel had left behind in the east wing of dormitories.
“The crucial test for the solution of all these intricate problems which confront and challenge our ingenuity is the sheer and forceful application of those immutable laws which down the corridor of time have always guided the hand of man, groping as it were for some faint beacon of light for his hopes and aspirations.” McCain and Obama Court Hispanic Voters - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
The word ‘bridge’ in this community's name comes from the corridors and bridges that connect the seven buildings.
Mr King said black non-slip strips had been placed along the corridor.
The western section in the Congo basin is connected to it by a narrow corridor. Kahuzi-Biéga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo
But the Doctor had turned on his heel and was almost skipping along the right-hand corridor.
They got down to the end of the corridor to the hole in the door leading to the lift shaft.
It was crowded, and I had to maneuver around many people, but finally she led us into an empty corridor.
A later invention, the unicycle with an off-centre hub, would bring people out into the corridors to watch him as he rode it, bobbing up and down like a duck.
They said a gang called the "Asian Invasion" was behind a campaign of bullying at the school, and demanded security guards to protect pupils. "and that" Patrick said a fight had been arranged after Henry "barged" into a group of Asian boys in a school corridor. Archive 2008-01-01
Fashionable Victorians flocked to promenade through this new underwater marvel, an amazing twin-bore arched corridor lit by flickering gaslight.
The regime did not honour its commitment to open humanitarian corridors to Aleppo and other besieged areas. Times, Sunday Times
The opening shot conducts us through the corridors of Rémy's hospital.
Amtrak does, although Conrail has an exclusive right to operate any freight trains on the corridor.
Zlotin used a key card to activate the metal door, which opened on to a dimly lit corridor. CODE BREAKER
Smiling, the brown-haired Caucasian man, now proud that he endorsed his own intuitiveness, escorted me down a stairway, then through a long, concrete tunnel-like corridor. One Season
Along corridors, endless corridors, with doors on either side.
Before them stretched a long corridor, allowing only three people to walk abreast.
The only depth is a dark, airless corridor in the wall's middle. The Times Literary Supplement
Sally took his advice, sprinting past him down the corridor, easily outdistancing him.
Once the corridors were cleared the two men would be taken to the Central Police Station, and the woman Rosalie, too — she would be put in a room by herself — and there they would be made to strip to the skin and go through the anthropometrical inspection. Maigret and the Lazy Burglar
We rounded the curve, and the corridor came to an abrupt halt.
Narrow corridors lead off from the main hallway.
The words we speak help to build a kind of inner dwelling, plotting out the psyche's suite of rooms and corridors and courtyards, its stairways, arbours, spots of sun and shade.
Doug appears in the doorframe, but first peers out into the corridor like a hunted fox searching for his pursuers.
The audience visited three chambers connected by dim corridors. Times, Sunday Times
I could hear the pit-a-pat of feet in the corridor.
Those old boxes in the corridor are a fire risk.
Broadway is a few blocks distant but worlds away from the cultural corridor along Grand Avenue.
The men out in the corridor were trying to catch what they said.
Others on the move include bats, which have taken to using canals as a seasonal corridor in the warmth, according to a report from British Waterways, and thousands of browntail moth caterpillars, which have spun sticky canopies of cocoons on Canvey island, in Essex, to pupate earlier than usual. The Guardian World News
Prisoners are fed breakfast, lunch and dinner by wardens who come down the corridors with ready-cooked food on trolleys but many inmates prefer to make their own meals in the evening.
I tiptoed along the corridor.
I heard a step in the corridor.
Hector said it was a jolly good idea and very brave of her and he would be lurking in the corridor in case there was any trouble.
Go down the corridor, to the second room on the right.
All the birds funneled through a narrow corridor and crossed the Equator within a ten-day period in early October.
In the corridor were four dirty, ragged bundles, just identifiable as human beings.
The report identifies five possible corridors that could be studied for future light-rail routes (sorry for the crappy iPhone photo; the presentation doesn’t appear to be available online), including a route connecting Ballard to the University of Washington and a route connecting Aurora Avenue in Haller Lake to the UW. Report Says Current 520 Plan “Virtually Precludes” Rail in the Future « PubliCola
Rats run freely over the shrouded corpses which lie abandoned in the corridors.
Distant creaks and groans echoed eerily along dark corridors and seemed to expand into the circular chamber.
The corridor links the old part of the hospital with the new.
Recessed, arched alcoves terminating in solid plank wooden doors were placed about every 10 paces on alternate sides of the corridor.
Fine-grained mylonite developed in the fault corridor may have favoured aseismic deformation in the Shin volcano area.
And fear not if you find him prowling the corridors at odd hours. Times, Sunday Times
Again he paced down the narrow gray corridor, aimlessly and planlessly, for what seemed miles and miles. The Moon of Skulls
The young man led Mark Ryle along a corridor.
It will be political suicide for the Government if the Western Rail Corridor is not reopened, the West On Track group has warned.
Gas drilling projects, such as Jonah Field, impede pronghorn migration, and new homes restrict corridors to no more than a few hundred yards wide in places.
James nodded understandingly, and led Leanne up a narrow corridor and into a small bedroom where there was a bed, a wardrobe and a desk.
We were jammed together, shoulder to shoulder, in the narrow corridor.
Hence all the turbulence, all the restless energy, the endless traveling along streets and long corridors.
UN troops will secure the land corridor so that food supplies can reach the trapped civilians.
Room 121 is at the end of the corridor.
The corridor opened into a T-junction in a groin vault serving as a landing for a broad, dimly-lit staircase.
Sucking in a lungful of cold air, Piper moved once more down the corridor.
Complete the procedures and you can try them all again on a gurney in the corridor. Times, Sunday Times
The decor is arty and playful, with murals in the bedrooms, 'goodnight' graffiti in the corridors and grand neogothic windows. Times, Sunday Times
Various men kept banging into me in the narrow corridor.
You walk across the courtyard into the arabesqued porch directly opposite the entrance and you are in a weirdly high single-file corridor like those secret passages in the innards of Egyptian pyramids. Remnant of a Humanist Past
The quick dart down the corridor to the loo in your underpants at 3am as you lurch through France. Times, Sunday Times
There is a glass door in this corridor which lets in light and has been designed to connect with a future bedroom built above the workroom.
I waited for her in the corridor, while she went in to see the doctor.
Hearing a slight noise to her left, she wheeled round again and stormed along the corridor, cursing Brunton's obsession with mazes.
He led them out of the reception hall and down the corridor to a small room on the left.
There appears to be no restrictions on who uses the road, the road median strip, road verge or any part of the road corridor.
You can joke and jest all the time in the hotel, and we'll probably have a game of cricket in the corridor. The Sun
The boys started to tussle in the corridor.
There was an armed guard on the roof and one at the end of the corridor. Times, Sunday Times
After a couple of lefts and a right she found herself in a long, straight corridor.
Sick patients shambled along the hospital corridors.
Oldtime corridor hepcats will chuckle fondly at descriptions of von G'll, long after running out of film, still dollying with a boobish smile on his face down the golden vistas. Gravity's Rainbow
Every time you went through a door into a classroom or a door in the corridor you had to swipe your card through an electronic card reader, and this was logged into an anonymous grey hard drive in the cellar and stored for posterity.
It is said he had to put up with a sofa in the corridor until his identity was revealed.
Parker followed to the far wall where James inserted a magnetic card into a neatly concealed slot in the wall, and the wood paneling of the wall slid open to reveal a brightly lit corridor.
This nigrescent little corridor opens onto a dimly lit dining room that has seven booths that seat four and two tables that seat two.
She hurried down the corridor.
The cement corridor beyond was lit only by the emergency exit sign.
Truly unaware, some brazenly buttoned their flies as they walked out of the lavatory into the corridor.
For a minute she was aloof in radiance, but as we linked arms and went out into the corridor she became more mortal, with a pout. The Return of the Soldier
When this is completed and all 88 recognised corridors are safe, the elephants will be all right for the foreseeable future. Times, Sunday Times
The clouds in the nursing home corridors, sky-open springlike after a bathe and forgotten, in a frayed blue dressing-gown beside an osiery. Archive 2010-04-01
And not that I have actually said goodbye yet either: it is more a case of the staff distracting my now quiet and quivery-lipped boy while I sneak out the door and slope off down the corridor.
He sent Chavasse staggering down the corridor and followed three feet behind, the Mauser ready for action. THE KEYS OF HELL
He raised his voice as he walked down the corridor with a groggy, staggering gait.
Mostly they felt their way down dark corridors which smelled of age and dampness and old carpeting. THREE IN ONE
The building is a maze of corridors.
In the music, a complex web of ricercars, or intricate contrapuntal studies, seems to reflect the labyrinth of Saragossa's subterranean corridors through which the prisoner stumbles.
The refuge's fan-shaped palms harbor migrating warblers, green jays, and long-billed thrashers, and are part of a wildlife corridor for two endangered wild cats, the ocelot and jaguarundi.
The bathroom is just along the corridor.
Imagine hurtling down corridors and careening around corners, with no sense of what's in front of you.
He was reprimanded by a teacher for talking in the corridor.
Cathy flew by/past me in the corridor.
He loosed off a couple of shots down the corridor, the kitchen staff were pouring out into the street outside.
For the first time we heard sounds of gunfire as we made our way to the north of the Serb land corridor. Broken Lives
The atmosphere in this corridor, like the atmosphere in New Eden, is just like your home planet," the Lincoln biot said. The Garden of Rama
Broad swaths of asphalt also fragment wildlife habitat and block migration corridors - and will eventually threaten populations isolated from food sources and potential mates.
Behind this rush came some of the heavily armored soldiery of the corridor. SABRIEL
In public spaces such as lobbies and corridors, good lighting design will create a visual hierarchy by highlighting objects and surfaces to identify what things are important and help visitors find their way.
Fashionable Victorians flocked to promenade through this new underwater marvel, an amazing twin-bore arched corridor lit by flickering gaslight.
The 1,750 sq ft bungalow is made up of three buildings connected by modules that act as light wells and avoid claustrophobic corridors.
Any arm-twisting or gentle persuasion presumably took place in corridor huddles or late-night conversations.
The playground was awash with them, as were walls, corridors, exercise books and the backs of lower school pupils who could be held down while a pud was chalked onto their jersey.
The rectangular building has a corridor running from the entrance hallway with double doors to the drawing room.
In school corridors and front rooms up and down the country tears of joy and despair were shed this morning.
Connecticut schools have been fitting yellow intruder alarms next to fire alarms in their corridors and dining halls. Times, Sunday Times
You should have heard it echoing down the corridor, hilarious and beautiful all at once.
We're not talking about a couple of new sofas and some fresh carpet in the corridor.
A figure emerged from the gloom of the corridor.
Walking down the corridors of Pittodrie Stadium is like running a gauntlet of mirth and merriment.

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