crawlway

Example Sentences

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The 200-centimeter-long, two-tunnel design, complete with an escape hatch, is an architectural marvel compared with the short, single crawlway of the deer mouse.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 16, 2013

Navigator Bruce Kulka unbuckled his seat and shoulder harnesses, scooted up from his seat in the nose to the crawlway, opened a hatch and squeezed into the floodlighted bomb bay.

From Time Magazine Archive

The crawlway was a narrow, square, cold tunnel hollowed out beneath the flight controls, and a large man like Yossarian could squeeze through only with difficulty.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Yossarian began slapping at him insistently and signaled wildly toward the entrance of the crawlway.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Their single fault, from where Yossarian sat as a bombardier, was the tight crawlway separating the bombardier’s compartment in the plexiglass nose from the nearest escape hatch.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller