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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
- 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
ingress = entry
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