passages

Example Sentences

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The arrangement of passages, cracks, and openings can reveal how water travels through different layers of rock beneath the canyon.

From Science Daily • Jun. 2, 2026

There have been 99 subterranean passages discovered in the Southern District of California since 1993, according to the Justice Department.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

We know this because Charles Dance recites Michelangelo’s snidest journal passages throughout, bringing a welcome pettiness to an otherwise staid chapter of art history.

From Salon • May 16, 2026

His notebooks, newly republished in an English translation by Ryan Bloom, are full of similar passages in which Camus reproaches himself to get to work and stay true to his beliefs.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

A current of air blew in my face though, somebody must have left a window open in one of the passages.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier