How to Use alleyway in a Sentence

alleyway

noun
  • The narrow streets and alleyways of a village in Karnal.
    Kunal Sehgal, CNN, 22 Oct. 2024
  • On a recent afternoon, four of the artists were gathered in the alleyway discussing and touching up some of their work.
    Karen Pearlman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Dumped elsewhere in Kibera, the fetus had washed up in a narrow alleyway after a night of rainfall.
    Alex Platt, CNN, 24 May 2018
  • The alleyways still make shortcuts between the old garages, and the homes are well-kept, azaleas lush, magnolias bigger than ever.
    Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 16 May 2018
  • Videos and images posted online by witnesses showed bodies spread along alleyways.
    Javier C. HernÁndez and Iris Zhao, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2018
  • The path between life and liberty is a dank, cramped, unending alleyway in which we are forced to spend our entire existence.
    Michael Harriot, The Root, 2 May 2018
  • The hospice would serve homeless people with cancers or other fatal illnesses who might otherwise die in alleyways or curled up on park benches.
    Cynthia Hubert, sacbee, 12 May 2018
  • In the mid-2000s, a group of soldiers duct taped a claymore mine to a small surveillance robot and sent it down an Iraq alleyway, killing a man.
    Caroline Lester, The Atlantic, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Almost all of the victims were described as homeless and found dead of stab wounds to their upper bodies in alleyways, parking lots and behind bars between 3rd and 7th streets.
    James Queally, latimes.com, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Wow, nice to see Oleg literally anywhere besides a bench in a discreet nighttime location, a dark alleyway, or a drab government building.
    The Cut, 16 May 2018
  • Then, down the stretch of Jung Jing Road, somebody spots her in the distance, steady, resolute strides carrying her down the deserted alleyway.
    Andrea Alonso, Los Angeles Magazine, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Along with food and beverages, there will be a pop-up Soko retail shop in the alleyway adjacent to Sabbath featuring apparel, tote bags, hot sauces, coffee beans, and more.
    Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 11 Sep. 2024
  • It is made for the Gulf of Bothnia and the alleyways of Jokkmokk and the lethal zephyrs of Njörðr.
    Joseph O’Neill, The New Yorker, 21 June 2018
  • All the alleyways and side-streets blocked with stops and colons.
    Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Bar Trench is a small, cozy speakeasy with less than 20 seats that sits at the end of an alleyway.
    ELLE, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The alleyway still stands as a monument to the tragedy.
    Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2023
  • Behind the hotel in a redesigned alleyway is the heart of the Dairy Block.
    Will McGough, Forbes, 26 June 2022
  • The stare-down scene for sure was the most difficult for me, in that alleyway.
    Vulture, 7 July 2022
  • In a couple of hours, the line will wrap into the alleyway across the street, Issa says.
    Zareen Syed, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2022
  • In the alleyway, the numbers don’t dwindle until the supplies run out, when the sun dips and shade floods the street.
    Erica Hellerstein, The Mercury News, 24 Aug. 2019
  • Leach returned to the alleyway to alert Green that the gunman had been taken down.
    BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2021
  • The two met in an alleyway, and Bailey shot Collins after Collins rushed at him and pushed him.
    Clifford Ward, chicagotribune.com, 16 Sep. 2020
  • Byham was sitting in the third row and noticed a crouching man in black come from an alleyway to the right of the stage.
    Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The men were standing in an alleyway next to the apartment when gunfire rang out.
    Michelle Hunter | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 21 Sep. 2020
  • The remix’s video finds the Queen of Pop and Shake posing in an alleyway before speeding off into the night in a sportscar.
    Kat Bouza, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Three of the phones were located in the alleyway behind the business.
    cleveland, 17 Oct. 2019
  • The live-crime missions range from a single fight in an alleyway to a lengthy battle against waves of foes on a rooftop.
    Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 4 Sep. 2018
  • The stench of cow dung engulfs the gulleys, where thousands of flies swarm outside doors and mangy cats roam the alleyways.
    Rhea Mogul, CNN, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The Harp and Celt, for example, has also used the Pine Street alleyway.
    Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 12 Mar. 2021
  • In the first clip, six officers can be seen in a narrow alleyway around a side door.
    Evan Simko-Bednarski, CNN, 25 June 2020

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