Example Sentences

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He was downstairs, at the end of a room that surely isn’t as long and tunnellike as I remember it.

From Slate • May 4, 2021

Today, while crowding into an enclosed space is unthinkable, your experience at the African American Museum is still shaped by architecture: The winding, tunnellike galleries give way to high-ceilinged halls.

From Washington Post • Nov. 18, 2020

Through the door, I was greeted by a narrow hallway with a white, disco-style light-up floor and white walls that curved, tunnellike, into the ceiling.

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2020

Their tours start similarly, with visitors walking through a dark, tunnellike entrance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 5, 2013

And Harry was hurtling back out of those wide, tunnellike pupils and Gregorovitch’s face was stricken with terror.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling