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Meanings of alley in English
Synonyms
Examples for "alleyway"
Examples for "alleyway"
1
The two had stepped down just off the street into the alleyway.
2
She left the square and headed along a narrow alleyway between buildings.
3
Two men had snuck up right behind us in the empty alleyway.
4
As they passed an open alleyway, he heard sobbing and shuffling footsteps.
5
The spirit floated among the towers to descend into an abandoned alleyway.
1
It was a back street, and the hill was an inviting one.
2
Those poor children on the back street have been hungry long enough.
3
The window gives upon a low roof, which communicates with the back street.
4
He passed through a back street and out into wider thoroughfares.
5
It was in a quiet back street, within sound of St. Paul's clock.
Usage of alley in English
1
He saw no point in following the service alley left or right.
2
The crash had fallen in the alley of poplars along the road.
3
Linking the Iran issue to Israel leads us down a blind alley.
4
The alley door was open and in it stood the Senior Second.
5
The stock-room was in the rear, the large windows overlooking an alley.
6
For a moment he paused in the shadows of the alley listening.
7
There was a way out by the alley; he well knew it.
8
In the darkness of the alley George said to Marguerite, feigning irritation:
9
Leesil came off the far wall, body whirling across the alley floor.
10
Soon they left the avenue and were lost in a green alley.
11
The alley from the gate ran on between houses abutting the towers.
12
The tenants used the side door that let into the brick-paved alley.
13
I just wondered if you saw anyone in the alley yesterday morning.
14
Both of them walked along the alley for a time in silence.
15
He would convey the treasure there and drop it into the alley.
16
So far as the law went he was in a blind alley.
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Alley through the time
Alley across language varieties
Canada
Common
United States of America
Less common
Australia
Less common
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