How do you use the word "corridor" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "corridor" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "corridor": I happened to witness the bullying in the corridor. The corridor was so crowded that we couldn't walk.

Corridor Meaning

/ˈkɒɹɪdɔː/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, as in a building or in a railway carriage.

nounA restricted tract of land that allows passage between two places.

Sentence Examples

I happened to witness the bullying in the corridor.

The corridor was so crowded that we couldn't walk.

His room is along the corridor.

CEFR Practice Quiz

The hotel had a long, narrow ____ connecting the lobby to the rooms.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

I happened to witness the bullying in the ____.

Word Origin & History

Borrowed from French corridor, from Italian corridore (“long passage”) (= corridoio), from correre (“to run”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.[…]Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place." — 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:

"Eldridge closed the despatch-case with a snap and, rising briskly, walked down the corridor to his solitary table in the dining-car." — 1931, Francis Beeding, Death Walks in Eastrepps, chapter 1/1:

"My mind drifts now and then / Lookin' down dark corridors and wonders what might have been / Something's up ahead / Hey, should I keep this same direction or go back instead?" — 1977, Isley Brothers, “Footsteps in the Dark”, in Go for Your Guns:

"In addition, there are two up and two down korridorzug ^([sic]) [Korridorzüge] of the O.B.B. which run through from Innsbruck to Reutte via the Mittenwald line, but which are "sealed" between Scharnitz through Garmisch-Partenkirchen as far as Ehrwald, carrying passengers only from Austria to Austria; the korridor thus refers to the corridor through Germany and not through the train." — 1951 November, Brian Reed, “An Austro-German "Corridor" Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 778:

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