gain ingress

The key with which he had attempted to gain ingress to my flat was doubtless a pass-key to Cassavetti’s rooms.

This fact told them they must be approaching an opening where the outer air managed to gain ingress to the fissure.

The opening by means of which we were to reach the outside was barricaded with a few large fragments which did not by any means close it entirely; but through the apertures thus left no large animal could gain ingress.

It opened upon a narrow ledge where we could build our cook-fire; the opening was so small that we had to lie flat and wriggle through it to gain ingress, while the interior was high-ceiled and spacious.

Mr. Ford followed him cautiously, painfully conscious that his hypocritical canine introducer was only availing himself of an opportunity to gain ingress into the house, and was leading him as a responsible accomplice to probable exposure and disgrace.