How To Use Alleyway In A Sentence

Just over two weeks ago a 27 year old woman was sexually assaulted in an alleyway.
They were replaced by shanties and shacks built of nothing more than clapboard or wattle and daub with dark and threatening alleyways between.
A metal vent cover hit the floor of an alleyway with a large clatter.
Although there was stout opposition, the king's men stormed the town and history records that they used the alleyways to reach the town centre where there was some stiff fighting.
‘Alleyways are an access point for about 90 per cent of burglaries in the area and by sealing them off we can greatly improve residents' security,’ he said.

A motor car was parked in the alleyway about three metres from the bakery door and alongside the Alliance building end wall.
He ducks into an alleyway in an attempt to lose his pursuers, but before he can scurry over a low wall, they catch up.
An image of a taxi-clogged street is set against one of smiling boys in an alleyway; an aerial view of straight avenues, traffic circles, and high-rises is juxtaposed with one of the honeycombed streets of the old town.110 Bloodlust
There are abandoned temples, coliseums, amphitheaters, ruins of old, ruined Greek-Roman fortresses - there are even alleyways of destroyed ancient cities.
The Jag blocked the whole alleyway, barely leaving enough room for someone to sidle past it. DEAD BEAT
Sparkling jewellery smuggled through dark alleyways and fur coats stitched in countries where fur was never needed.
The terrorists parked the van with its deadly cargo in a dark alleyway.
Deep guttural growls came from the alleyway, as well as fearful whimpering.
A motor car was parked in the alleyway about three metres from the bakery door and alongside the Alliance building end wall.
Outside the ancient settlement, with its alleyways and arches reinforced with bamboo canes, is the early 13 th-century romanesque church of St Esteve.
After it was settled, the fighters at the shrine removed the bandanas that had masked their faces and slipped away into the city's maze of alleyways.
When the crowd is large enough, the musicians and their burro (you'll figure out what he's for, I won't give away all the secrets) begin strolling up a callejon (alleyway) playing razzmatazz music. Restaurants in Zacatecas and Saltillo
Anonymous, unpresuming spaces: backyards, little squares, impasses, narrow streets and alleyways.
Colin reluctantly runs out the front entrance and escapes through the maze of alleyways.
We wandered up small streets and down broad avenues and peered along murky alleyways.
Back Streets - One of Kingston's charms during the day is the back streets and alleyways that radiate from the Market Place.
They were replaced by shanties and shacks built of nothing more than clapboard or wattle and daub with dark and threatening alleyways between.
He stealthed behind her for a few minutes before she turned into an alleyway, where a shifty character stood waiting for her.
All the buildings nearby create a maze of alleyways and rooftops.
A man dragged her into an alleyway, and attacked her in a nearby churchyard.
They created a network of more or less typical city blocks, some with alleyways and private drives.
From the length of the Royal Mile runs a spider's web of cobbled alleyways, ancient courtyards and wynds.
She walked all day, plodding down deserted alleyways and running across busy intersections.
Carefully he picked her up in his arms and walked through the alleyways to get to his home.
I write short, sharpish comments which are always linked to the original material and also provide odd alleyways for the interested to meander off into.
Sam had figured out that Brigid, in a plan to frame Thursby, had drawn Archer into the alleyway and killed him with Thursby's weapon.
The terrorists parked the van with its deadly cargo in a dark alleyway.
Enterprising guides, Caucasian and Chinese, readily catered to the impulse of pleasured fear, oftentimes staging the arrest of a so-called highbinder conveniently in front of a group of sightseers or leading their charges through alleyways replete with employees trained to vanish mysteriously when tourists neared.
The noshery is also organising to supply a similar service to the newly-opened Blues Factory, just down the Soi Lucky Star alleyway.
Composed of two low-rise red-brick buildings separated by a narrow alleyway, the industrial complex became redundant in 1990.
Not that she hadn't seen new sights in the Valley: eetees roaring along Figueroa Avenue in a Lincoln Navigator; eetee muckamucks cavorting in a swimming pool full of yellow slime; eetee grunts dead and bloated in an alleyway, lunch for a pack of feral dogs. Asimov's Science Fiction
There are many little back roads and alleyways that are usually used as shortcuts into the town centre.
The Jag blocked the whole alleyway, barely leaving enough room for someone to sidle past it. DEAD BEAT
They scrambled from the police car and headed down a narrow alleyway, their hands resting lightly on their sheathed batons.
She was particularly concerned about an alleyway going behind the school as a possible dumping ground for hypodermics.
But after a chase through snickets and alleyways, he again got away.
An awful stench filled the stuffy air of the wet alleyway, which permeated my nostrils.
Eventually the crumbling brick and wood houses of the alleyways gave way to the great space of the mosque, its massive dome towering above us.
Also the driver of the Transit van used by the gang and possibly the rider of a moped seen in a nearby alleyway. Times, Sunday Times
Steps from the beach, and the cobbled medieval alleyways of the old town, this is a the perfect base for exploring the region. Times, Sunday Times
Looking to the mouth of the alleyway Carl saw the woman in the blue dress climb into the limo and watched as the door closed and the window came down.
They weren't meant to look too closely at the subtext, duck into the alleyway or the authentic cookhouse on route, or some red light backstage dressing room where she sat half-undressed in front of a mirror, all shallow breath and heaving breasts, rouge, heart on sleeve. Unwritten
Off to the sides, however, the Royal Mile disintegrated into a hopeless muddle of squalid wynds and alleyways peopled by beggars, pickpockets and the poor.
We were led into the maze of alleyways. Times, Sunday Times
She knew from bitter experience how treacherous such feelings could be, and the blind alleyways down which they led.
We were led into the maze of alleyways. Times, Sunday Times
It is a warm spring night, with a hint of the Santa Anas in the air, and the least likely place in Los Angeles to experience a pastoral groove is probably the outside seating area at Lukshon, in the alleyway behind the Helms Bakery complex, settled around a table, waiting for the wine dude to return with a freakishly obscure bottle of listan negra, which is a kind of high-acid Canary Islands beaujolais. Lukshon: The Jonathan Gold Review
He led them through a winding maze of streets and alleyways, and finally they reached a clearing.
The church adjoins narrow cobbled alleyways to the south, but hideous seventies offices to east and west.
A medieval town dominated by fantastic architecture, it is a gem with ancient streets and alleyways punctuated by beautiful civil and ecclesiastical buildings.
Bradford's snickets, the alleyways and passages which link streets and roads, are often well-used, convenient short-cuts for pedestrians, helping to avoid long walks around the houses.
A motor car was parked in the alleyway about three metres from the bakery door and alongside the Alliance building end wall.
A total of 14 authorities, including Leeds and Bradford, have applied for powers to shut off alleyways.
The train rolls smoothly along through the night, and during the day you can take a tailor-made excursion or slope off alone and dart down inviting alleyways, mooch around markets or bargain in bazaars.
The squalor of the medieval city - with its cramped living quarters and dark alleyways - would be erased forever.
The three teenagers approached the victims as they walked along the alleyway past the town's bowling club.
And below it, a lovely Venetian window, complete with stone tracery, which used to look out on some view of the Temple of Aesculapius, perhaps; but now it is filled in by a modern window-frame which looks through the same window in the opposite direction, out into the alleyway which, perhaps, used to be a corridor. Inside, Outside, Upside Down (And Inside Out)
Tree-lined boulevards dotted with pavement cafes and small boutiques characterise this atypical Tokyo quarter, and a maze of alleyways and backstreets happily interrupts the city's otherwise ubiquitous grid pattern.
Cool and relaxing, the forest was a refreshing retreat from the muggy, crowded streets and alleyways of the now often crowded town.
Crystal pleaded as the cat darted down the alleyway banging into trash cans and making all kinds of noise as it went.
Corridors funnel deep into the fabric of the building, like the alleyways of a Mediterranean town.
Follow this alleyway south behind the casino and speak with Masour.
He said: ‘The area is honeycombed with alleyways which make easy getaways for criminals and there are a worrying number of burglaries around them and all sorts of other problems.’
She followed him through a network of alleyways until he mistakenly darted into a cul-de-sac.
Old Lahore is surrounded by the old city wall, with narrow alleyways and crumbling buildings. Times, Sunday Times
The winding alleyways fester with crime and disease. The Sun
After ten minutes of this, and a couple of anxious trawls up and down the bars, I embarked on a third tour, this time going outside, where in the dark alleyway a soft voice said, ‘Is that Tony?’
We eventually migrated to a narrow, cobbled alleyway, an archaic space crammed with smartly dressed young people, the overflow from several dimly lit bars.
Her heart pounded against her chest as she ran down the back streets and alleyways.
There's a warren of cobbled alleyways where you will find cellars offering free brandy tastings. Times, Sunday Times
Its walled medina, crisscrossed by almost 10,000 alleyways, seems specially designed for sensory bombardment. Times, Sunday Times
The 16-year-old was walking in an alleyway between Museum Gardens and Exhibition Square when the man, who had a jaundiced, yellow complexion and bad teeth, approached her.
Stout concrete walls were knocked down, cars and trucks were jammed into trees, furniture and personal possessions, instantly transformed into useless detritus, were somersaulted down the streets, and tons of mud and sand clogged many of the avenues and alleyways. Alamos: Still a boom to bust town, but with everlasting charm
Council chiefs in Doncaster are planning to ‘design out crime’ by sealing off alleyways between houses which have become a haven for criminals, vandals and vagrants.
He was right next to us as we walked down the alleyways and through the crowded streets.
It has cobbled streets, that are shiny through wear, narrow alleyways and hundreds of steps for climbing. Times, Sunday Times
We found ourselves dipping into quaint alleyways, down cobbled walkways, by ancient houses, priories and churches. Times, Sunday Times
I peeked around the corner of the alleyway and spotted some shadows playing across the ground via the moonlight.
The incident happened on Wednesday March 16 around 3pm while the driver was visiting a butchery, situated two doors away from the alleyway.
The boy waved his hand in the air, indicating that he meant the alleyway, in which they stood.
As most of these trees tend to be in backyards, traverse the alleyways to discover that rambling apple tree with branches drooping heavy with fruit over the yard fence. Untapped Abundance: Three Steps to Adopting a Neighbor’s Fruit Tree
From the alleyway outside came the " tock - tock ! " of a dumpling - pedlar striking his bamboo tube.
VENTURA - Ventura police were investigating a possible homicide Tuesday evening after the body of a man was discovered in an alleyway near Arundell Avenue. Ventura County Star Stories
The terrorists parked the van with its deadly cargo in a dark alleyway.
At first sight it's all relaxed coffee shops and cobbled alleyways. The Sun
Any child riding these in a public place including roads, pathways and alleyways is breaking the law.
He walked out into the alleyway, scraping the knives along a wall and causing sparks to fly from the blade in the darkened alley.
His bronze skin glistens in the sunlight while he walks along the alleyways.
Sullen (the name Th 'Cap'n blessed Her assailant with) turned down one of the many dingy alleyways and his' enforcers 'shoved the women after him. Cap'n Dyke, Lesbian Pirate Queen & Rogue Blogger
The scheme encourages residents to club together to raise money to install gates at the entrance of alleyways.
Also pay special attention to alleyways that can often be a wind trap or a store for unsightly rubbish.
The windows of buildings were filled with a liquid dark and alleyways receded into nothing.
Also on hand were two constables from the Kent police motorcycle unit to tackle nuisance motorcyclists, who are able to evade officers in patrol cars by disappearing down the estate's many alleyways.
They demanded the keys to his car, but when the man resisted, the attackers ran off along the road and down an alleyway.
The bikes will allow police to cycle down narrow footpaths and alleyways that are inaccessible to police cars and vans.
More than a hundred British soldiers have lost their lives in the narrow alleyways of Sangin and its surrounding fields. Times, Sunday Times
Nervous about dark alleyways and gloomy underground car parks? Times, Sunday Times
Overshadowed by the Minster, the largest gothic cathedral in northern Europe, York is a hotchpotch of narrow, cobbled lanes and medieval alleyways.
When the two met in a narrow alleyway, they each opened fire. Times, Sunday Times
The narrowest, poorest alleyways glow with flames, lighting up the hillside paths.
The terrorists parked the van with its deadly cargo in a dark alleyway.
Earlier in the day, police released video of a man who stopped in an alleyway, took off an overshirt showing a red one underneath and put it in a bag before continuing on his way. Bomb Suspect Proves Elusive
We turned another corner, narrowly dodging another bullet, running down the alleyway.
An awful stench filled the stuffy air of the wet alleyway, which permeated my nostrils.
Then they burst from the backstreets and the alleyway onto a large empty thoroughfare.
It was identical to the one thrust into my hand in the alleyway.
Its story, about a boy and a minatory dog, is anecdotally slight, but the way in which the camera observes and negotiates the labyrinthine alleyways of central Tehran is visually telling.
The enemy usually tried to exfiltrate away down alleyways, but often had to run from positions of concealment to these exfiltration routes, so it was easy for us to anticipate where to kill the enemy.
Beyond them other streets with narrow rear alleyways and outside lavatories stretched all the way to the main road.
You can't miss the lorry, it is in the alleyway at the back of Babaluma Street where everyone parks their artics.
He does not see the shadows detaching from the alleyway, or how they steal close to him. L. Debard and Aliette
Nervous about dark alleyways and gloomy underground car parks? Times, Sunday Times
Are these the alleyways you snuck through to go skinny-dipping with Johnny?
The conservation activities endow city with deep cultural meaning over again and look for urban humanistic vitality and romantic spatial developmental philosophy of back street and alleyway.
Walking up the alleyway he took a key from his pocket and opened the door.
Missus Hall would relieve herself on old newspapers in the alleyways on Central Avenue.
But after a chase through snickets and alleyways, he again got away.
Moves to demolish Stonegate Walk - the L-shaped arcade of 23 shops linked by alleyways to Stonegate and Blake Street - began yesterday.
We went through several alleyways this morning, and people would just creep out slowly.
One of the banned adverts in the series appeared as a poster and showed a photograph of an alleyway at night.
It is a grim suburb of Wishaw, composed of high-rise tower blocks and a network of lower-level blocks of flats, narrow alleyways and parking lots.
Mr. GIBSON: They fit back behind a little commercial strip in an alleyway, but hardly noticeable from the street itself. Chilled-Out Buildings Save Energy, Money
The center of old cities is the casbah (Arabic for fortress), a market of serpentine alleyways and intricate arches where a variety of traditional crafts are sold, from carpets to baskets to pottery.
We dragged him down an alleyway into a little abandoned printing shop. Times, Sunday Times
More accurately described as a grungy alleyway, it is a rare piece of not-yet-gentrified property in Manhattan, and it's adjacent to some luxury apartment buildings on First Street. Libertarian Blog Place
The tiny closes and wynds - entrances and alleyways - that line the street on either side offer glimpses of the Old and New Towns.
This was a beautiful part of the old city, with catacombs and twisted alleyways, a casbah of the eastern Mediterranean.
Desperately looking around for the omnibus, they passed a short alleyway and the woman saw a busy street beyond.
He ran down the alleyways and before long had returned to the guildhall.
As she walked toward a dark alleyway containing a concealed entrance to the labyrinth of thieves' dens called the Maze, she bumped right into a young man in a City uniform, who said a nasty word.
I went down all the alleyways and garages and called his name, but I there was no sign of him not even a meow.
The mass of soldiers squirmed through the all too narrow alleyway as they escaped from the ambush.
She was then grabbed from behind before being pushed into an unlit dark alleyway.
She could be creeping back down a dark alleyway any day. The Sun
He had a destination in mind and he was not about to get lost in the labyrinthine alleyways and side streets.
There are no alleyways or conventional back doors in the Khan el Khalili. HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
The center of old cities is the casbah (Arabic for fortress), a market of serpentine alleyways and intricate arches where a variety of traditional crafts are sold, from carpets to baskets to pottery.
We should always be edgy when we walk down dark alleyways in the middle of the night and be scared of lorries on the motorway.
The people were infected while walking past the ventilation duct in an alleyway.
It tumbled at first, then caught the air in its frail wings and fluttered away, a spot of gold and emerald in the grim alleyway.
Hundreds of pill popping, crack smoking heroin fiends line the sidewalks and alleyways of this potentially gorgeous neighborhood and quite frankly I have been disgusted to a degree I no longer feel is tolerable.
The playbill of a theatre, a cinema's neon blandishment, an alleyway somewhere. THE LAST RAVEN
As Ella and George watch the rest of the march, the kids sneak down the alleyways and rejoin the head of the procession.
He turned and followed Murray-Roberts down a narrow alleyway beside the teahouse. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
Before you can even begin to get your bearings, you are pulled from the car and pushed down an alleyway at gunpoint.
We descended into the columbarium and squeezed in between the many many wide ladders that the temple had decided were suitable for the narrow alleyways between shelves piled with urns containing cremated remains.
The terrorists parked the van with its deadly cargo in a dark alleyway.
Somewhere in the alleyway outside, cat song purled into the night.
The Lanes are a network of intriguing cobblestoned streets and alleyways filled with wee shops, galleries and eateries.
The shed was at the bottom of the garden and it is believed whoever started the fire escaped via an alleyway running alongside the house.
The ghetto remains a picturesque area of cobbled alleyways. Times, Sunday Times
There's a warren of cobbled alleyways where you will find cellars offering free brandy tastings. Times, Sunday Times
On a brief stroll through the nearby alleyways we counted 70 bonfires and spirits were rising.
There was a sense of peace and serenity in the room that I was lying in, instead of the feeling of anxiousness and fear that I had felt while I was walking in the alleyway.
The children scamper, disappearing into dark alleyways and secret passages.
Virginia dumped the burlap sacks in an alleyway.
Behind The Cedars was a back alleyway which the dustmen used. The Devil's Bedpost
They had befriended the victims outside a bar in before walking them part-way home and robbing them in an alleyway off Kendal Road.
Pagoda-style gopuram are thronged with blue-faced, multi-armed gods, animals and monsters, while the alleyways between them are candlelit and incense-filled.
All over Southeast Asia rickshaws are the unsung vehicles that keep populations moving along congested streets and narrow alleyways, swinging deftly through multiple lanes of angry city traffic as quietly as worker ants.
A sex attacker who struck in an alleyway in daylight was today being hunted by police.
All the buildings nearby create a maze of alleyways and rooftops.
So there we were outside the club in a little alleyway, staring away. Times, Sunday Times
Before I sliced my thumb I was working on a grandly chiaroscuro-ed subject, of an alleyway in London, seeking to get the rich darks and the lucid lights I am coming to think of as my favourite subject and my ultimate challenge.
The old-fashioned arrangement of iron bars called the "bilboes" was fastened to the bulkhead at the bow end of the alleyway. The Black Buccaneer
The playbill of a theatre, a cinema's neon blandishment, an alleyway somewhere. THE LAST RAVEN
Here, the barrier winds down a narrow alleyway used 350 years ago by sisters to drive cows out to pasture.
We sneaked out of the club and down a dark alleyway. The Sun
IN a candlelit room off a dank alleyway, 12 addicts are sharing their stories. The Sun
If the government seems unbothered by problem alleyways and graffiti, then, runs the thinking, it will seem out of touch with voters themselves.
Also the driver of the Transit van used by the gang and possibly the rider of a moped seen in a nearby alleyway. Times, Sunday Times
Part of the alleyway, which runs parallel to the north side of Manchester Road, remained sealed off.
With a spring, he jumped out of the alleyway and hoofed it back to his apartment.
Beyond open space, in the alleyway that led to the barless door, three Trollocs were peering cautiously out of the shadows toward the lighted windows. The Great Hunt
Homeless and friendless, I set out into the slums, and found a quiet alleyway near an open air market to cry myself to sleep in.
In Hollywood's version of New York City, the metropolis is teeming with secretive, cinematic alleyways—the ultimate urban character actor, always on call to lend a film a sense of lived-in grit. Our Typecast Metropolis
From the length of the Royal Mile runs a spider's web of cobbled alleyways, ancient courtyards and wynds.
He walked out into the alleyway, scraping the knife along a brick wall and causing sparks to fly from the blade in the darkened alley.
This maze of alleyways and compounds is grimly familiar to British veterans of Sangin. Times, Sunday Times
In time he came to reject the notion as uncommercial, whispering to the alleyway, `All that gutters is not gold. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
It is also true that the number of taxis zipping through the city's narrow streets and snaky alleyways is surprisingly large.
He even volunteered to walk down the middle of the alleyway when a ball became stuck in the gutter.
Access is either through the side alleyway beside the pub or from the car park at the rear.
This was a beautiful part of the old city, with catacombs and twisted alleyways, a casbah of the eastern Mediterranean.
Slide through an alleyway that seems to have history inscribed on its cobbled stones and we've reached the first stop.
Would Bonaventure return or take offence at not being fed by him and disappear for ever into the stinking alleyways?
Shui Xiang translates as 'water village' and the expansive 3,132 square meter (33,713 sq ft) spa has been created in traditional open-air hutong (Chinese courtyard residences separated by narrow alleyways) style, with 13 individual spa 'houses' circling a central water feature. StreetInsider.com News Articles
This maze of alleyways and compounds is grimly familiar to British veterans of Sangin. Times, Sunday Times
An alleyway called Vyse Lane would be opened to the public again for the first time since the Second World War.
They walked down steep alleyways, scooter-torn and transected by wind-ruffled tapestries of clothing and bedding, and on every other corner there lurked a little shrine, with candles and doilies and the lifesize effigy of a saint, a martyr, a haggard cleric. 'The Pregnant Widow'
Some wearing protective visored helmets, they gained the element of surprise by running down an alleyway towards the back of the block.
With another wave, the bureaucrats were banished, gone for ever, scurrying like little, fat rats into the alleyways.
Any child riding these in a public place including roads, pathways and alleyways is breaking the law.
The High Street has many alleyways that are worth exploring.
The one Italian icon not worshipped here is the motorcar, which is of little more use in the stepped alleyways than it would be in the Tyrrhenian Sea.

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