noun
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a path designed, and sometimes landscaped, for pedestrian use
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a passage or path connecting buildings
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a passage or path, esp one for walking over machinery, etc
Etymology
Origin of walkway
Example Sentences
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Asked who was paying for the new walkway, Trump replied: "Me."
From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026
Separately, Trump said he was replacing the decades-old sandstone paving stones in the colonnade, the pillared walkway that leads from the main White House mansion to the Oval Office.
From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026
We meet at the MD Anderson Cancer Center here, America’s top oncology hospital, and we’re seated at a simple table in a public walkway.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
"Seeing other dancers around me was really motivating," says Wilson Tay, who used the walkway for dance practice twice a week.
From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026
As if propelled by some force beyond even my own power, my boots kept marching down that walkway, louder and stronger and sturdier than I’d ever walked before.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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