alley

[ˈæli]

Definition:
1. A narrow passage behind or between buildings.
2. A narrow street with walls on both sides.

Use 'alley' in a sentence:

• 1. Laughing, both of them ran out of the alley and back to Bar Street.
• 2. The truth is, even as a grown woman I tend to want to run in the alley rather than play tea party with the girls.
• 3. They found the club along an alley behind a bingo hall.
• 4. I couldn't find the old skittle alley, but thankfully they still have a bar.
• 5. In her defense, though, the apartment they live in is off a long and somewhat secluded alley.
• 6. There is a small restaurant at the entrance of the alley.
• 7. By his watch, he waited for another forty-five minutes, sitting on the steps in an alley behind the building.
• 8. But the cry was echoing round the alley, echoing inside his head, there was something about it that sounded almost human.
• 9. I walked off until the guards were out of sight and slipped into an alley.
• 10. An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.
• 11. Some other members of the neighborhood helped to plant flowers and trees along the alley.
• 12. A drunk lay in the alley
• 13. He dived into an alley to escape from the police.
• 14. Down an alley lined with trees, shadowy even in the summer heat, stood a little white villa amid a wild garden.
• 15. The side alley was walled off from the back garden.
• 16. We live in the same alley.