alley
[ˈæli]
Definition:
1. A narrow passage behind or between buildings.
2. A narrow street with walls on both sides.
'alley' example sentence:
- Laughing, both of them ran out of the alley and back to Bar Street.
- 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.
- They found the club along an alley behind a bingo hall.
- I couldn't find the old skittle alley, but thankfully they still have a bar.
- In her defense, though, the apartment they live in is off a long and somewhat secluded alley.
- There is a small restaurant at the entrance of the alley.
- By his watch, he waited for another forty-five minutes, sitting on the steps in an alley behind the building.
- But the cry was echoing round the alley, echoing inside his head, there was something about it that sounded almost human.
- I walked off until the guards were out of sight and slipped into an alley.
- An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.
- Some other members of the neighborhood helped to plant flowers and trees along the alley.
- A drunk lay in the alley
- He dived into an alley to escape from the police.
- Down an alley lined with trees, shadowy even in the summer heat, stood a little white villa amid a wild garden.
- The side alley was walled off from the back garden.
- We live in the same alley.