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Meanings of alley in English
Synonyms
Examples for "bowling alley"
Examples for "bowling alley"
1
Young men went down before her like ninepins in a bowling alley.
2
He learned it was setting up ten pins in a bowling alley.
3
There were swings, and a bowling alley, and boats, and other amusements.
4
A bowling alley or drive-in movie theatre would have been most welcome.
5
Lower Columbia Bowl bowling alley where you meet Chunk is still there.
1
Now it seems hardly necessary to erect a splendid palace for the better convenience of the skittle alley.
2
Quoits hung up on several large nails driven into a wall, and there was a covered skittle alley.
3
One was an intermittent rumbling from the back premises of the inn half-way up; this meant a skittle alley.
4
There was also a skittle alley attached to the pub and no charge was made for the use of it.
5
It has all the ingredients of a typical country pub: warm welcome, changing selection of real ales and ciders, good food, inglenook fireplace, skittle alley.
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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