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Recent Examples of alleyway
Instead of the typical suites and hotel hallways, visitors are invited to luxuriate in grad riads and explore winding alleyways.
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Bianca Salonga, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
The city has had trouble reviving its allure with tourists, while its bars and nightclubs, once teeming with crowds squeezed into narrow alleyways, now draw fewer revelers.
—David Pierson, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2025
Yards are getting cleaned up along the alleyways and adjoining streets.
—Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
Grayson O’Connor was found dead in the alleyway behind the Grand Boulevard Lofts in downtown Kansas City around 11:30 a.m. on Nov. 27, 2023.
—Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 4 Feb. 2025
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Bianca Salonga, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
The city has had trouble reviving its allure with tourists, while its bars and nightclubs, once teeming with crowds squeezed into narrow alleyways, now draw fewer revelers.
—David Pierson, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2025
Yards are getting cleaned up along the alleyways and adjoining streets.
—Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
Grayson O’Connor was found dead in the alleyway behind the Grand Boulevard Lofts in downtown Kansas City around 11:30 a.m. on Nov. 27, 2023.
—Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 4 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for alleyway
Noun
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The three fights in the first nine seconds of that 3-1 victory by the Americans were right up winger Marcus Foligno’s alley.—
Joe Smith,
The Athletic,
20 Feb. 2025
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Fat Black Pussycat, John Hood’s clubhouse, is dark, clubby, totally saturated, at the alley entrance to Mickey’s.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
20 Feb. 2025
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According to police, neighbors on the otherwise idyllic-looking street had no idea what was going on inside.—
Gina Kaufman,
USA TODAY,
19 Feb. 2025
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Replacing the outgoing Forte, the new Kia K4 is slightly larger and roomier than its predecessor and brings more street style to the table as well.—
Kristin Shaw,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2025
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As armored tanks drove down the main thoroughfare, scared and teary-eyed residents acknowledged being at a total loss.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
25 Feb. 2025
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Another ordinance gives squirrels the right of way on all public streets, sidewalks and thoroughfares in Olney, and implements a $750 fine for harassing one.—
Michelle Mastro,
Smithsonian Magazine,
18 Feb. 2025
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The road is closed from Blue Ridge Cut Off/Exit 9 to Sterling Avenue/Exit 10 in Kansas City.—
Kansas City Star Bot,
Kansas City Star,
23 Feb. 2025
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Putting off a little mess can mean an even bigger one down the road (or even warrant a call to the exterminator).—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
23 Feb. 2025
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But the town’s cohesion frayed in the late twentieth century as factories shuttered, leaving behind dangerous pollution, and the construction of an interstate highway demolished the historic downtown.—
Julian Lucas,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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Here's your daily look at traffic on major highways in the Kansas City area.—
Kansas City Star Bot,
Kansas City Star,
24 Feb. 2025
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This position is responsible for professional and highly complex administrative work, control and processing of documents related to large scale programs and projects involving County roadways and related infrastructure.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
26 Feb. 2025
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The most difficult travel conditions are expected on secondary roadways, including gravel and dirt roads.—
Joe Edwards,
Newsweek,
23 Feb. 2025
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Excepting a limited few number of supercars, there’s very little that can hope to keep up with this vehicle in a boulevard sprint.—
Mark Ewing,
Forbes,
1 Mar. 2025
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Minneapolis may soon require gardeners to get a permit for their planter boxes in the boulevard strip between the sidewalk and street.—
Kyle Stokes,
Axios,
27 Feb. 2025
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“Alleyway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alleyway. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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