noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
alley cat
blind alley
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False information has led the police up a series of blind alleys.
bowling alley
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
back
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Then we took off down the back alleys in case some one saw us and told our parents.
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Give me a dark back alley compared with being a pinball in the gallery of the desperate.
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We exited into a back alley via the fire door.
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Riot police stood guard even in tiny back alleys .
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Fifteen months ago this was a place with one casino and a couple of back-alley betting shops.
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When the bars closed, she and her sister drove through back alleys hunting for him.
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When I woke up I was in some back alley .
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But then so am I if I saw a lion wandering around the back alleys of Danang, right?
blind
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Yet on several occasions when running out of defence he turned down blind alleys .
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Progress can not be made without exploring blind alleys .
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Dark passageways and blind alleys obscure the light at the end of the tunnel.
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If the police went charging up a blind alley as a result of her information, it wouldn't be her fault.
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Our analysis should clearly indicate the several blind alleys which Frey here explores.
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The echinoderms may seem, from a human point of view, to be a blind alley of no particular importance.
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This way of thinking has to be one of the blinder alleys that we have been led up by psychoanalysis.
dark
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I wouldn't like to be stuck down a dark alley at night with whoever put the boot in here.
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Give me a dark back alley compared with being a pinball in the gallery of the desperate.
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Rachel looks quietly excited, peering round this dark alley like it's the entrance to a new nightclub.
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We imagine our children being accosted in dark alleys and force-fed narcotics until their souls are no longer their own.
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That's where Desperate Dan, spying on the proceedings from a safe, dark alley , had got it wrong.
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You wouldn't want to meet her coming towards you down a dark alley .
little
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He went down the steps and through the little brick alley .
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There were little lamps illuminating the little rat alleys .
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We need this little private alley where we can meet.
narrow
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Graham and Slater walked down the narrow alley formed by the seedy, decaying stonework and the painted wood.
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We turned off the main street into a narrow , shaded alley .
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When she reached Soho, a policeman directed her to Manette Street; a narrow alley between two tall buildings.
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Then I reached a narrow alley full of large snowballs.
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Every road, every lane, even the narrowest of alleys was taken up with stalls.
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He threads his way through narrow alleys where the sun never penetrates.
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I'd overshot the narrow alley before it registered properly.
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She followed Will along the mean cobbled streets until he paused alongside a narrow alley .
■ NOUN
bowling
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The hotel also offers a three-lane bowling alley with a bar.
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In addition there is a billiard room, solarium, cinema, indoor and outdoor pools, bowling alley and gym.
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Downstairs is a Tyrolean-style bowling alley and cellar bar.
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There is a bowling alley near the station, and two minigolf courses.
cat
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He may have the morals of an alley cat but raping a semi-comatose girl was beyond him.
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I mercilessly left his fate in her hands; it was like leaving a goldfish in the care of an alley cat .
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Wise-guy Brooklyn alley cats had bread and dripping for tea, just as I did on Sunday evenings.
side
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When they returned Jenkins again led the way out into the side alley behind the bar.
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He turns down a small side alley where the scene is quieter, with fewer glaring neon signs and nude photo displays.
■ VERB
bowl
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When I return to the bowling alley , some kids are getting wild.
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The bowling alley fire in a neighboring town that killed five firemen when my father was deputy fire chief.
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The incident grew out of student efforts to integrate the local bowling alley .
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On Feb. 13, 1993, a massive brawl broke out in a Hampton, Va., bowling alley .
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So most of our bases have bowling alleys , and we built a bowling alley at this base.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A delivery truck blocked the alley .
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A narrow alley led up between the houses to the main street.
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Women in white aprons gossiped in the alley between the apartment blocks.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And being a dead end, the alley led to nowhere else.
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Back in the main town, we explored twisting alleys which eventually led us to the old Frankish quarter.
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Entry is gained from an alley on the side, so narrow that it can at best take a single car.
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It overlooked an alley , and the bay windows were sun-blocked by the townhouse at 93.
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Locals welcome any efforts to beautify the alleys.
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Meredith glanced up uncertainly at the four-storey buildings soaring up forbiddingly on either side of the alley where they were walking.
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Others went in alleys behind the buildings and lofted rocks and bottles over the roofs.