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

Here are real-life examples of using "way": You are in my way. This is always the way it has been.

Way Meaning

/weɪ/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounTo do with a place or places.

nounTo do with a place or places., A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another.

Sentence Examples

You are in my way.

This is always the way it has been.

She finished the race way ahead of the other runners.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

style direction means

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

Despite the storm, the hikers discovered a safe ____ through the forest.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

Could you please tell me the best ____ to get to the city library from the main train station today?

Word Origin & History

From Middle English way, wey, from Old English weġ, from Proto-West Germanic *weg, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-. Doublet of voe and possibly via. Cognates Cognate with North Frisian wai, wäi (“way”), Saterland Frisian Wai (“way”), West Frisian wei (“road; way”), Central Franconian Wääch (“way”), Cimbrian bege, bèg (“way”), Dutch weg (“way”), German, Low German Weg (“way”), Limburgish waeg (“way”), Luxembourgish Wee (“way”), Mòcheno be (“way”), Yiddish וועג (veg, “way”), Danish vej (“way”), Faroese and Icelandic vegur (“way”), Norwegian Bokmål veg, vei (“way”), Norwegian Nynorsk veg (“way”), Swedish väg (“way”), Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌲𐍃 (wigs, “path; road”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"The way seems difficult, and steep to scale." — 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

"the season and ways very improper for his Majesty's forces to march so great a distance" — 1688 November 14 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for 5 November 1688]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC:

"Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair." — 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

"I was on my way to the door, but all at once, through the fog in my head, I began to sight one reef that I hadn't paid any attention to afore." — 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter IV, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

"Risk is everywhere.[…]For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you. “The Norm Chronicles”[…]aims to help data-phobes find their way through this blizzard of risks." — 2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76:

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