How to Use alley in a Sentence

alley

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  • North, has a large warehouse with an alley at the rear of the building.
    — Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 8 July 2023
  • Paramedics drove in through the back alley but their gurney wouldn’t fit through the back door.
    — Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Tyree said Benner emerged from the alley with a BB gun.
    — Cassidy Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The alley is where neighbors say hi and bye, Mr. Lanter said.
    — Conor Dougherty, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Hit some balls in the right-center field alley, and he’s taken to it.
    — Jeff Fletcher, Orange County Register, 25 Apr. 2024
  • This place was so charming, full of small streets and alleys.
    — Sue D. Gelber, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Then, Drake steps in and throws an alley that would make D Wade do a double take.
    — Damien Scott, Billboard, 5 Mar. 2024
  • The alley will display a timeline of sports leading up to the draft, city records show.
    — Detroit Free Press, 13 Mar. 2024
  • With the bases loaded and one out in the fourth, Brett Binkley lined a ball up the alley in right-center field.
    — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2023
  • The 23-year-old victim had been shot and was face down in one of two areas of the alley that had been set on fire.
    — Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Apr. 2024
  • That wall of sound, which people call shoegaze, was very much up my alley.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Aware of police surveillance of the hotel, Miles sent the pair to hide the pool table in the alley.
    — Richard J. Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Feb. 2024
  • The field is just off an alley between Fourth and Fifth Avenues.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 14 July 2023
  • Her dog was also found dead in the alley where she was found, police said.
    — Isabelle Butera, USA TODAY, 26 June 2023
  • The first floor, which the owner said was a basement, opens onto an alley at the back of the property.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Garbage trucks in the alley pushing slush around, chewing.
    — Edgar Kunz, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
  • Her purse was found a day after the car, in an alley where one of two early suspects was known to buy drugs.
    — Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Beat up a homeless man in an alley who’s now pressing charges.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Pomegranate trees hang heavy with fruit in gardens in the labyrinthine alleys that lead uphill and away from the shore.
    — Feride Yalav-Heckeroth, CNN, 24 May 2023
  • The church is in a narrow alley adorned with Indian flags.
    — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The rescuers put the person in an ambulance and went back into the alleys.
    — Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Officers then searched the area and found an injured woman in the alley behind the home.
    — Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 18 Aug. 2023
  • And sure, have a romantic dinner and sprinkle some rose petals on the sheets if that’s up your alley.
    — Ian Kerner, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Alex tried to close the gate to stop his ball from rolling into a vehicle alley, but the gate’s wheels broke away from the rails, causing the gate to fall on him.
    — Cameron MacDonald, The Mercury News, 12 Feb. 2024
  • These alleys are quirky artifacts in Pierre L’Enfant’s design for the city.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Residents of the Jenin refugee camp emerged from their homes to find alleys lined with piles of rubble and flattened or scorched cars.
    — Nasser Nasser and Imad Isseid, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 July 2023
  • Residents of the Jenin refugee camp emerged from their homes to find alleys lined by piles of rubble and flattened or scorched cars.
    — Time, 5 July 2023
  • The boy, from Chicago, had been playing near an alley when the gunshots began at 10:15 p.m., Witz wrote.
    — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2023
  • One of Cincinnati's many quirks is our presence of public stairways and alleys.
    — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 6 May 2024
  • Wake Me Most Wickedly is an outright invigorating yarn, a tale of back alley wheeling and dealing and daring rooftop escapes.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 9 May 2024

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