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Example sentences for "alley"

Lexicographically close words:
alleviate; alleviated; alleviating; alleviation; alleviations; alleys; alleyway; alleyways; allez; allfired
  1. Each alley between desks quivers with secret romance as ceaselessly as a battle-trench, or a lane in Normandy.

  2. Her sorrow was like sympathy for a mangy alley cat which she could not take home.

  3. We left that house and walked on into the poorest part of the city, down a little alley which was hard to find, in search of a certain door which was still harder.

  4. The ramifications of the narrow streets in Tetuan would take a quarter of a lifetime to master, and then an unexplored alley might be found, though it is easy to walk across the entire length or breadth of the city in ten minutes.

  5. The stone alley she had come into, the terrible shut gate, were for her a visible symbol of the destiny she had to put up with.

  6. There is also a long strait alley of clipped yew.

  7. Sydney Alley is named after the Earls of Leicester, who had their town-house on the north side of the square, where Leicester Place has since been opened.

  8. Thus Ram Alley and Mitre Court in Fleet Street, and Baldwin's Gardens in Gray's Inn Lane, were amongst these refugees of roguery and crime.

  9. Madame Bavoil led him to where this alley ended under the arch of another bridge.

  10. Durtal stopped when he had gone a few steps, dazzled by the illumination of the choir in contrast with the dark alley of the nave, which only gained a little light where it joined the transepts.

  11. When I came to myself I was lying in the alley and a man was going through my clothes.

  12. I could hear their retreating footsteps echo down the alley and was quite sensible of the situation without being able to rise, or even cry out.

  13. As I stepped into the taxi the vest-pocket edition of Nick Carter with whom I had ridden up from the city a few hours earlier darted out from the alley where he had been lurking.

  14. The alley ran through the next street and so did the Curtis grounds.

  15. The alley came into the street at a right angle, and, when Harry turned the corner, a heavy, dark figure thrust itself into his path.

  16. It was near a dark alley opening on the street and running by this side of the house.

  17. He led the way up the alley between the rose-trees, that the torn proclamation might be no longer in sight.

  18. I shall be glad when to-morrow morning is come, and I shall be in this alley again.

  19. They have been pacing the alley between the rose-trees this hour nearly--talking and arguing all the time.

  20. From every lane and alley men poured into the street and swelled the hurrying current.

  21. She took my arm; and under her guidance, I entered the gloomy alley from which I had seen her issue.

  22. Alley met the author, put up his notices ordering every man to come in and enroll his name.

  23. Alley made a speech to the people and said, among other things, that the counties of Oregon and Shannon had been controlled by one of the most desperate class of men that ever lived.

  24. Captain Alley had completed the organization of two companies, one commanded by Captain Lasley and the other by Captain Bledsaw.

  25. It opens onto the alley between the livery barn an' the store.

  26. While the barn dogs saddled Endicott's horse, Old Bat led the way to the alley between the livery barn and the saloon, and throwing himself upon his belly, lighted matches and studied certain marks on the ground.

  27. It will let you out into the alley between this building and the livery stable.

  28. The narrowness of the alley behind the bar undoubtedly saved the struggling Texan from serious mishap.

  29. I wish I had him, I'd larrup him crossing before the 'accident' alley beside the main well!

  30. As I was gathering up my tools to go in, a coarse, brutal-looking Irishman came walking up the alley and looked round.

  31. Again I chided myself for my fears, when, as I looked up the alley to the street, I saw a group of four men come in stealthily.

  32. I could hear them rushing out of the alley as fast as they might, not one of them waiting for 24 or 47.

  33. Now, it was by Church Alley that my mother and I always came into our house, and so into our garden.

  34. I told him I lived next the church, and that, on such and such a night, there was a regular row among roughs, and that several of them went storming up the alley in a crowd.

  35. My pile of logs, indeed, grew eventually into a blind or screen, which quite protected that corner of the church alley from the view of any passer-by in Fernando Street.

  36. I took my mother to Church Alley, muttered something about some friends, which she did not understand more than I did, and led her up the alley in her confused surprise.

  37. I reasoned vaguely that it was a dark day, and darker in the church, and so I went in at the Church Alley entrance and sat near the north door.

  38. But my wife she writes a note and gives it to a boy in the alley to put in the post.

  39. With fifteen new readings to electrify the diurnal critics of Petticoat Alley and Blow-bladder Lane!

  40. Hiring an office in a dark alley in Boston, I assumed the lofty title of Doctor Sketers.

  41. Without waiting a moment, the four men gathered themselves into a compact body and dashed down the alley as fast as they could run.

  42. There was a turn in the alley before it reached the street.

  43. Mornay had put the light out, and, pausing not a moment, stepped over the sill and let himself down into a kind of roofed alley or court which ran between the rear portions of the buildings.

  44. A little girl from across the alley came and offered to conduct us to school.

  45. The dull tramp of the patrol routed my musings, as in quick time a party advanced up the alley towards me.

  46. Hills rose up ahead of us as we marched on, the highest we had seen since Enare, and our way lay through an alley fenced in by silvery birch-stems.

  47. One by one they left her, some diving, some swimming direct to the cover on the banks; and then she herself, with a final quack of defiance, got in the air and flew away through an alley of black pines.

  48. I climbed up th' fire-escape in th' alley an' got a nice biff on th' coco for me pains.

  49. He crossed the street and entered the, alley and gazed up at the fire-escape down which Mason had made his escape.

  50. They stood in a shadow-blacked alley just across the street, watching the big building nervously, studying it for weak points and escape areas.

  51. Malone stayed well within the shadows as he moved silently around to the alley behind the warehouse, and then to a narrow passageway that led to the building next door.

  52. He walked with grandeur down the alley between the rows of coops.

  53. In three days the whole population was concentrated at the new alley betting their outfits and their lives.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "alley" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    access; aisle; alley; ambulatory; aperture; arcade; arterial; artery; avenue; bypass; byway; causeway; channel; cloister; close; colonnade; communication; conduit; connection; corridor; court; crescent; defile; dike; drive; driveway; exit; expressway; ferry; ford; freeway; gallery; highroad; highway; inlet; interchange; intersection; junction; lane; mews; opening; outlet; overpass; parkway; pass; passage; passageway; pike; place; portico; road; roadbed; roadway; row; street; terrace; thoroughfare; track; tunnel; turnpike; underpass; way