as in streets
a narrow passage between buildings
One can spend days exploring all the alleys and backstreets of the old city.
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Recent Examples of alleys
When helping Dan Jacobs and Dan Van Rite conceptualize their restaurant DanDan, Three Sixty was inspired by hole-in-the-wall restaurants tucked away in the urban alleys of Shanghai.
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Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Mayor Muriel Bowser has offered cautious support, noting that the District has already spent years upgrading local streets, alleys, and tree coverage.
—Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 28 Aug. 2025
Meanwhile, winding alleys lead past plaques of Saint Catalina Thomàs—Mallorca’s patron saint—born in the village in 1533.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
The city may still enforce rules banning sleeping on sidewalks and streets or in alleys and doorways.
—Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 30 Mar. 2025
The claustrophobia—alleys that might be almost 900 years old that have never seen the sun since they were built.
—Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 14 Mar. 2025
Only a handful of billiard halls and bowling alleys are doing business in Doral.
—Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2025
Later, surveillance video captured the same Nissan driving through alleys near the scene of the shooting, the complaint alleges.
—Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 2025
They are armed with automatic weapons – largely smuggled from the United States – and move unhindered through the narrow, winding alleys of their neighborhood strongholds in Port-au-Prince, which national and multinational police forces are often unable to navigate in their bulky armored vehicles.
—Linnea Fehrm, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Mar. 2025
Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Mayor Muriel Bowser has offered cautious support, noting that the District has already spent years upgrading local streets, alleys, and tree coverage.
—Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 28 Aug. 2025
Meanwhile, winding alleys lead past plaques of Saint Catalina Thomàs—Mallorca’s patron saint—born in the village in 1533.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
The city may still enforce rules banning sleeping on sidewalks and streets or in alleys and doorways.
—Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 30 Mar. 2025
The claustrophobia—alleys that might be almost 900 years old that have never seen the sun since they were built.
—Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 14 Mar. 2025
Only a handful of billiard halls and bowling alleys are doing business in Doral.
—Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2025
Later, surveillance video captured the same Nissan driving through alleys near the scene of the shooting, the complaint alleges.
—Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 2025
They are armed with automatic weapons – largely smuggled from the United States – and move unhindered through the narrow, winding alleys of their neighborhood strongholds in Port-au-Prince, which national and multinational police forces are often unable to navigate in their bulky armored vehicles.
—Linnea Fehrm, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for alleys
Noun
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Just this morning, DHS took violent offenders off the streets with arrests for assault, DUI, and felony stalking.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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What’s most inspiring about these showings of texture on the streets of New York fashion week is that more times than not, Black women are not widely embraced in all of their glory to live in their textures during these occasions.—
Essence,
Essence,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Red and white English flags have proliferated along streets and been painted on roads.—
Vitalii Yalahuzian,
USA Today,
14 Sep. 2025
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Nothing better than putting down the top and driving beautiful roads just after the rain stops and the air is powerfully charged by the nearby ocean, scrubbed clean.—
Mark Ewing,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
Noun
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On highways and surface roads in the rural countryside west of Detroit, the 2025 Ford Explorer was smooth and quiet, with plenty of power for highway acceleration.—
Mark Phelan,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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Here's your daily look at traffic on major highways in the Kansas City area.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Alleys.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alleys. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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