How to Use alleyway in a Sentence

alleyway

noun
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • Each is mysteriously drawn to a light shop that sits at the end of a seedy alleyway.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The family has a view of an alleyway with two large, blue dumpsters.
    Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Most of us think of STIs as this dark, lurking presence, like a seedy alleyway that smart people know to avoid.
    Jenny Singer, Glamour, 6 Aug. 2021
  • The victim went after Mata and the two ended up in an alleyway.
    Elena Santa Cruz, The Arizona Republic, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Garbage and recycling should be placed at the curb in front of your home or alleyway by 7 a.m. the morning of collection day.
    Dallas News, 2 Dec. 2022
  • What happened in the alleyway itself was not visible in the video.
    Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Then, on March 12, as Denton and her daughter sat in the kitchen, the 5-year-old pointed out the window to a black plume of smoke pouring out from their alleyway.
    Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 May 2022
  • The scene where Linda climbs out of a window into an alleyway was also filmed in Paris.
    Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country, 31 July 2021
  • This stylish cocktail bar and sushi counter was inspired by six tiny alleyways in Shinjuku, Tokyo known as the Golden Gai.
    Sherrie Nachman, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • At first, the events are grim, but nothing out of the ordinary; a baby dies in an alleyway, and a former soldier beats his wife.
    Michael Lee Simpson, EW.com, 5 Oct. 2022
  • On a rainy night last month, down an alleyway in the Jackson Heights section of Queens, in a restaurant basement, sat about two dozen retirees.
    Alex Traub, New York Times, 14 June 2023
  • Hours after the incident, the muddy stone alleyway leading to Al-Aqsa Mosque was still stained with blood.
    Isabel Debre, ajc, 1 Apr. 2023
  • On the 21st of June, every year, residents and expats of Paris band together to bring live music to the city’s scenic streets and alleyways.
    Malik Peay, Essence, 26 June 2023
  • Police in Austin, Texas, released a video showing the brutal robbery of a man who was stomped on the head in an alleyway by two suspects who fled the scene on foot.
    Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The officers found the woman in an alleyway with stab wounds on her upper torso.
    Bradford Betz, Fox News, 17 July 2022
  • Many people tried to escape the crowd surge in the alleyway by trying to enter clubs or other businesses along the street.
    Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2022
  • There was just one problem: While Taylor loved their location, there wasn’t an alleyway for Frankie to run down.
    Adam B. Vary, Variety, 4 Oct. 2021
  • After the gunman left Lai Lai and ran into an alleyway, Tsay called police.
    Phil Helsel, NBC News, 24 Jan. 2023
  • In one sweet snap, she's seen holding hands with her younger sister Mikey as the two pose in an alleyway filled with colorful signage.
    Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Here, the narrow lanes are curlicues, like a medieval village, with abundant courtyards, alleyways and dead ends.
    William Booth, Washington Post, 2 May 2023
  • Toward the noon hour on a warm September day in 1962, a social worker walked down a narrow dirt alleyway just off of Malden Square.
    BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2022
  • Mahone drove three others to the area to buy drugs, but a gunman appeared from an alleyway and started shooting at the car, police said.
    Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 27 Sep. 2021

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