as in street
a narrow passage between buildings
One can spend days exploring all the alleys and backstreets of the old city.
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Recent Examples of alley
Medford Police Department Officer Logan Boyd approaches Aaron Friar's home and sees a visible blood trail from the front door to a back gate that leads to an alley.
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Megan Kelly Brown, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2025
Those dollars were supposed to go toward tree removal and building sidewalks, curbs and an alley.
—Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 17 Apr. 2025
The event includes live entertainment, a DJ, food trucks, a kids zone, workshops, exhibits, an artists alley and dozens of green vendors with information and resources on being environmentally friendly.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025
Detectives, tactical officers and other police personnel clustered on the sidewalk in front of the hotel, while others walked the service alley in the back of the building.
—Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2025
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Megan Kelly Brown, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2025
Those dollars were supposed to go toward tree removal and building sidewalks, curbs and an alley.
—Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 17 Apr. 2025
The event includes live entertainment, a DJ, food trucks, a kids zone, workshops, exhibits, an artists alley and dozens of green vendors with information and resources on being environmentally friendly.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025
Detectives, tactical officers and other police personnel clustered on the sidewalk in front of the hotel, while others walked the service alley in the back of the building.
—Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for alley
Noun
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Others left in their cars, dodging bodies that lay in the streets.—
Christina Goldbaum,
New York Times,
20 Apr. 2025
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The restaurant serves terrific pizza and even better cheesesteaks that draw long lines running down the street or, some days, up the street the other way, just to keep life interesting.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The road that leads to the Ambassador Bridge, which connects Detroit to Canada, is notoriously difficult to navigate, even for locals.—
Jasmine Garsd,
NPR,
24 Apr. 2025
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The museum tracing the company’s history is just across the road from the coffee shop where Bastiaan Riemersma is sitting.—
James Pearce,
New York Times,
24 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Here's what traffic is looking like today on Kansas 10 highway between Kansas City and Lawrence.—
Kansas City Star Bot,
Kansas City Star,
25 Apr. 2025
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Fewer vehicles on our roads also lessen the need for costly and harmful highway expansions, which consistently fail to reduce traffic.—
Jill Locantore,
Denver Post,
25 Apr. 2025
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“Alley.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alley. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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