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Recent Examples of alleyway
Hank, Dale, Bill, and Boomhauer often stand in the alleyway, drinking beer with one another.
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James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 May 2025
DiCaprio, older and with a goatee, looks down the scope of a gun and Penn’s character drags the screaming young woman through an alleyway.
—Lauren Coates, Variety, 20 Mar. 2025
Just a five-minute walk from the Jamaica subway station and AirTrain, which takes travelers to JFK-Airport in under 15 minutes, Choices Women’s Medical Center rests in a quiet alleyway off a bustling avenue.
—Alyssa Goldberg, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2025
Firefighters, hindered by cinder blocks sealing off windows and doors, discovered the woman, believed to be in her 40s, dead in an alleyway behind the building.
—Ellen Moynihan, New York Daily News, 19 Feb. 2025
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James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 May 2025
DiCaprio, older and with a goatee, looks down the scope of a gun and Penn’s character drags the screaming young woman through an alleyway.
—Lauren Coates, Variety, 20 Mar. 2025
Just a five-minute walk from the Jamaica subway station and AirTrain, which takes travelers to JFK-Airport in under 15 minutes, Choices Women’s Medical Center rests in a quiet alleyway off a bustling avenue.
—Alyssa Goldberg, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2025
Firefighters, hindered by cinder blocks sealing off windows and doors, discovered the woman, believed to be in her 40s, dead in an alleyway behind the building.
—Ellen Moynihan, New York Daily News, 19 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for alleyway
Recent Examples of Synonyms for alleyway
Noun
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Shops boarded their windows and doors and at night people lit fires in alleys and took bats to the sides of cars.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 June 2025
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These ones with a 2.75-inch inseam are right up my alley.—
Jamie Allison Sanders,
People.com,
22 June 2025
Noun
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But if Israel continues striking the regime’s tools of repression, space may open for Iranians to return to the streets.—
Efrat Lachter,
FOXNews.com,
19 June 2025
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Boelter then allegedly drove to a state senator's home in New Hope and parked on the street, Thompson said.—
Emily Shapiro,
ABC News,
19 June 2025
Noun
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One group of protesters blocked the 101 Freeway — a major thoroughfare in downtown Los Angeles.—
John Bacon,
USA Today,
10 June 2025
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Murders most often took place in markets, squares, and thoroughfares—all key nodes of medieval urban life—in the evenings or on weekends.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
6 June 2025
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Unauthorized biography is the more challenging road filled with potholes and road blocks.—
Brendan O’Meara
June 23,
Literary Hub,
23 June 2025
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The Verge reported a Tesla Model Y robotaxi briefly traveled the wrong way down a road in Austin.—
Samantha Subin,
CNBC,
23 June 2025
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The Waymo robotaxis available through the Uber app will cover approximately 65 square miles around Atlanta, but will not yet travel on highways or to the airport.—
Lora Kolodny,
CNBC,
24 June 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,
24 June 2025
Noun
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The roadway was officially ranked the sixth-worst corridor in the city.—
Ariane Lange,
Sacbee.com,
27 June 2025
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Flash flooding currents are strong and can sweep drivers off roadways.—
KANSAS CITY STAR WEATHER BOT,
Kansas City Star,
27 June 2025
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Two Black men pick up a white woman hitchhiking on the boulevard.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
14 June 2025
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Kin Thai’s menu tours the streets of Thailand, sampling food from stands on Bangkok’s major boulevards to bike-riding vendors in the rural countryside.—
Camila Pedrosa,
Sacbee.com,
14 June 2025
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“Alleyway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alleyway. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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