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Meanings of alleyway in English
Synonyms
Examples for "alley"
Examples for "alley"
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.
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 alleyway in English
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.
6
Their party made for an open-sided building and onward to another alleyway.
7
Deep within the alleyway, Lift heard a low, raw scream of pain.
8
He led Mahmoud out of the coffee shop and down another alleyway.
9
She inched farther into the alleyway, entering a place of undefined shadows.
10
Halfway down the block there was a dark mouth of an alleyway-unguarded
11
Nooning is over, and there are hurrying steps up the wide alleyway.
12
With grim determination I set off after the boys down the alleyway.
13
We turn into a narrow alleyway and he slumps against the wall.
14
At last she ducked into an alleyway, then dared to look out.
15
In the centre of the alleyway, all on her own, stood Toshiko.
16
The assassin I hunted down and left in pieces in an alleyway.
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Alleyway through the time
Alleyway across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Less common
United Kingdom
Less common