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alleyway
[ al-ee-wey ]
alleyway
/ ˈælɪˌweɪ /
noun
- a narrow passage; alley
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“This is a very typical street of the times,” Erik says, as we look at the bones of a few other past-bordellos in the alleyway.
After sneaking through a tunnel, the mark emerges in an alleyway.
When the fourth shell comes down, nervous onlookers usher us across the street into another alleyway.
As they began to chase him down an alleyway, Diaz ran toward the front of an apartment building.
Moments later, police caught up with two teens about two blocks away in a Pasadena alleyway.
Like a hurt animal, half crawling, knowing only the base instinct of self preservation, he tried for that delivery alleyway.
Two bedsteads, with a narrow alleyway between, occupied half the interior.
The street Tom followed was lined with tall tenements and ended in little more than an alleyway.
As he reached the second landing of the escape he saw Merrick turn the corner of the alleyway and disappear on the street beyond.
Then the youth got down on his hands and knees and looked over the edge of the tenement, on the alleyway side.
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