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Definition

entry

the turn lane provides better ingress to the parking lot

ingress = entry

prevent ingress of insects
moisture ingress into the control box
They resolved to leave means neither of ingress or egress to the sudden impulses of despair or of frenzy from within.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Masque of the Red Death

ingress = entry

He walked all round the building, seeking in vain for some other means of ingress.
Oppenheim, E. Phillips -- The Vanished Messenger
I could find no means of ingress.
Stoker, Bram -- Dracula
A small door, close to the lodge of the concierge, gave ingress and egress to the servants and masters when they were on foot.
Dumas, Alexandre -- The Count of Monte Cristo
The waters of the great deep have ingress and egress to the soul.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo -- Essays, First Series
They stood in a silent line, blocking Clary and face's farther ingress into the City.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Fallen Angels
The ingress point is a bit like a hole in fresh dough; if you don't poke a finger into it now and then the thing may just close up on its own.
Ransom Riggs -- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
He passed between the scene behind which I stood and a set piece, went to the wall and pressed on a spring that moved a stone and afforded him an ingress.
Gaston Leroux -- The Phantom of the Opera
I could find no means of ingress.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula
The door had just opened to give ingress to a gentleman who stepped forward and whose face Newman remembered.
Henry James -- The American
A small door, close to the lodge of the concierge, gave ingress and egress to the servants and masters when they were on foot.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
Beside the arched ingress hung a small bronze plaque.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
This passage gave ingress to every room.
Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
"The multitude, washed or unwashed, always has free egress and ingress" into the White House, an astonished visitor wrote earlier in Lincoln's presidency.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
That'll automatically replenish the air I lose with my entries and exits (what we NASA folk call ingress and egress).
Andy Weir -- The Martian
Moreover to light a fire is the instinctive and resistant act of man when, at the winter ingress, the curfew is sounded throughout Nature.
Thomas Hardy -- The Return of the Native
A door off this same porch gave into a living room which separated this room from the other parts of the house and permitted ingress and egress without contact with any other portion of the house.
Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy

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