How to use alley in a sentence

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• The alley is full of stray cats rummaging through the garbage.From the entry stray
• She had nothing better to do, so she went to the bowling alley to kill time.From the entry kill time
• This article would be right up his alley. Why don't you show it to him?From the entry up someone's alley
• The building's backside faced an alley and was covered in grime and graffiti.From the entry backside
• The suspect doubled back through an alley, but the detective stuck to him like glue.From the entry stick to
• She walked through the dark alley, warily glancing around to make sure she wasn't being followed.From the entry warily
• The new leisureplex will contain a skating rink, bowling alleys, and a five-screen cinema.From the entry leisureplex
• The hoodlum jumped a woman in the alley.From the entry jump
• We booked a couple of lanes at the bowling alley.From the entry lane
• The muggers edged her into an alley and demanded money.From the entry edge
• Muggers assailed them as they entered an alley.From the entry assail
• He said there was a beast with fangs in the alley, but it turned out to be a cute little kitty.From the entry kitty
• A stabbing took place in the alley last night.From the entry stabbing
• For quotations using this term, see Citations:alley cat.From the entry alley cat
• The fugitive tore off down the alley.From the entry tear off
• He was deader than a dead dog's bone buried down a blind alley off a dead-end street in a ghost town. Man, he was dead.From the entry deader
• The unicorn-beast, the same one from the alley, stepped to the fore.2023, Megan Mackie, Saint Code: The Lost. From the entry unicorn beast
• “I was working as a pinsetter in a bowling alley down in Tampa.”2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 92. From the entry pinsetter
• Comb the back alleys and clamber up to the Festung Hohensalzburg, the castle to outpomp all castles.2018, Mark Baker, Korina Miller, Lonely Planet Europe on a shoestring. From the entry outpomp
• I'm far from home, labyrinthing through unfamiliar alleys, before I find the right house.2017, Mahvesh Murad, Jared Shurin, Neil Gaiman, The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories. From the entry labyrinth
• We would ride through the alleys until the tip of the mop stick was sharp.2017, John Capouya, Florida Soul: From Ray Charles to KC and the Sunshine Band, Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida, →ISBN. From the entry mop stick
• The alley ended out a street that was unfamiliar to him.2017, Jack Mackenzie, Time Like Broken Glass, page 170. From the entry end out
• This court later became known as a racket court and then a ball alley.2015, Paul Rouse, Sport and Ireland: A History, →ISBN, page 60. From the entry ball alley
• The next one who came too close to the alley was for Gua Gua.2014, Christopher Buehlman, The Lesser Dead, New York N.Y.: Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 157. From the entry scarfy
• They skyfed at the beach, in the park, down the alley, outside parties and in speeding cars.2011, Erich Rautenbach, The Unexploded Boer. From the entry skyf
• We see him peg legging his way down the alley as Twist gives the signal once more.2011, Matthew Specktor, Sean Howe, The Sting, →ISBN, page 101. From the entry peg legging
• The tillerman steers the rear wheels, allowing the truck to turn onto narrow streets and alleys.2005, Justin T. Mayhue, Hagerstown Firefighting Through the Years. From the entry tillerman
• The teahouse was in the alleys of Taipei’s historical Tatung District.2003, Scott Simon, “Women in a Flower-Drinking World”, in Sweet and Sour: Life Worlds of Taipei Women Entrepreneurs, Rowman & Littlefield…. From the entry Tatung
• In many cases orders must be delivered by bicycles through back alleys too narrow for cars.2001, Paul Leppert, Doing Business with Japan - Page 61. From the entry unyieldly
• He chinned the alley fence and looked both ways along it.1994, Garry Disher, chapter 7, in Crosskill, St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, page 35. From the entry chin
• Coal, coke and sticks were needed, and boys would be designated alley and stickshed boys.1984, York Memories: Nine First-Hand Accounts of Life in York 1900-1939, York: York Oral History Project, →OCLC, page 30. From the entry stickshed
• "Move along, you coxcomb," Ignatius belched, the gassy eructations echoing between the walls of the alley.1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, chapter 10, in A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing)…. From the entry eructation
• She's all the time spying in that alley behind her shutters.”1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, chapter 7, in A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing)…. From the entry peace bond
• You can always folly a man down an alley, can't you?"1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, London: Penguin Books, published 1976, →ISBN, page 23. From the entry folly
• Yes, there was the tree-shadowed back wall on the alley, with the stout ungrilled door.1918, Francis Hill, Once on the Summer Range. From the entry ungrilled
• I fortunately found a spark plug on the burn and got that repaired and alley oop!1917 September 9, B.S. Walcott, letter printed in the 6 Feb. 1918 Princeton Alumni Weekly, p. 389. From the entry alley oop
• Shrig turned sharp to his left along the alley towards the River.1913 March, Jeffery Farnol, “Which Relates, among other Things, How Barnabas Lost his Hat”, in The Amateur Gentleman, Boston, Mass.…. From the entry vay
• Down a dusty alley in a car, young men cast off their true identities as they enter this apartment.2024 September 25, CBS Evening News, spoken by Debora Patta, New York, via CBS. From the entry hustle kingdom

Meaning of alley

1. noun A narrow street or passageway, especially one through the middle of a block giving access to the rear of lots of buildings.
2. noun The area between the outfielders.
3. noun An establishment where bowling is played.

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Questions about alley in a sentence

How do you use alley in a sentence?

Alley is used as a noun. For example: “The parking lot to my friend's apartment building is in the alley.”

What is a short sentence with alley?

“He hit one deep into the alley.”

What does alley mean?

Alley means a narrow street or passageway, especially one through the middle of a block giving access to the rear of lots of buildings.