gateway

Example Sentences

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Both companies have suspended shipping routes through the Suez Canal and the Red Sea, the gateway to the canal, due to safety concerns related to the war and the volatile situation around Hormuz.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 16, 2026

“Gut health is brain health, heart health. It’s the gateway to every other organ in your body.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 14, 2026

Tenerife is one of the Canary Islands in the Atlantic, which have become a gateway for tens of thousands of irregular arrivals seeking a better life in Europe.

From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026

Severe flooding has seen a library temporarily moved to a building that is considered a gateway to one of the most ancient sites in Ulster.

From BBC • May 28, 2026

Now she had come to the gateway they protected, and past the gateway the trees continued.

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson