alleyway

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Recent Examples of alleyway One encounter with a red-eyed Pikachu on the roof of a building quickly wiped out my whole crew; the only option being to leap off into the alleyway below. Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025 Ron Perez, president and CEO of CGHS, told Newsweek that someone found Petal in an alleyway, roaming the streets of Hudson. Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025 One of them is separated from Utah Valley University's Campus Drive by a chain fence, across from an alleyway the shooter may have used while fleeing. Peter D'abrosca , Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 11 Sep. 2025 At the heart of Downtown Santa Ana, an alleyway, once used as a trash enclosure and turnaround for delivery trucks, has been transformed into the city’s newest skate park. Mona Darwish, Oc Register, 10 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for alleyway
Recent Examples of Synonyms for alleyway
Noun
  • My own reading led me down a narrower and perhaps less nightmarish alley, but one with cautionary implications of its own.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Boise police stated that many of the cows found their way to an alley between 18th and 19th streets.
    Shannon Tyler, Idaho Statesman, 28 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • During the riots, Hamida witnesses a girl paraded naked on the streets.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2025
  • City officials estimated the revenue from Disney parks attendance and parking would generate $108 million to $164 million annually toward the city’s day-to-day operations, such as providing police and fire services, operating libraries and maintaining city streets.
    Victoria Le, Oc Register, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Violette_FR’s new London home has large windows and a separate entrance facing Carnaby Street, the historic shopping thoroughfare that’s crowded with locals and tourists alike.
    Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Macy’s chose China Grove for the facility due to its position in the Southeast near major thoroughfares, enabling faster, more efficient service to millions of customers.
    Jennifer Bringle, Sourcing Journal, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • A day when the Stanley Cup years finally ride the synaptic road back to long-term memory and the brain finally bumps the past for the present.
    Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The floods have also left 11 people missing, inundated more than 116,000 houses and 5,000 hectares of crops, and damaged roads and railways, cutting off traffic and power in several areas, the government’s disaster agency said in a report.
    Reuters, NBC news, 31 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Future of eVTOLs In the longer term, Goldstein sees a future where eVTOLs are ubiquitous in the skies above American cities, flying in designated, but invisible, sky highways to ensure safety.
    James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Here's your daily look at traffic on major highways in the Kansas City area.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Officers were in the area investigating a robbery at a nearby luxury boutique and had partially closed the roadway, according to court documents.
    Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Prosecutors allege Dominguez ran the stop sign at the rural intersection at a high rate of speed before his pickup crashed into the sport utility vehicle with Vargas and family inside, pushing the SUV off the roadway.
    Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 30 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • America’s hometown has open arms for all things Mexican food, with choices up and down the main boulevards.
    Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
  • His civic service helped lay the groundwork for a parks and boulevards system that remains a defining feature of Kansas City’s identity.
    Michael Wells, Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2025

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“Alleyway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alleyway. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.

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