Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: alley
IPA transcription: ['æli]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: alley, alleyway, back_street
    Meaning: a narrow street with walls on both sides
Usage examples
  • I didn't grow up in Rag Alley, New York, for nothing."
  • Like rival "gun gangs" in a back alley, the nations of the world, through the bloody ages, have fought over their differences.
  • It was not easy for "Mag of the Alley" to become at once Margaret Kendall, the dainty little daughter of a well-bred, fastidious mother.
  • At the entrance to the tube, in the gloom of that murderous alley, sits the Spider, who looks at us and betrays no great excitement at our presence.
  • There have been futile experiments without number; highly successful achievements have been thrown aside; one type of life after another has arisen and has pushed up a blind alley to extinction.
  • The Russian mountains having been exhausted, they began to think about dinner; and the radiant party of eight, somewhat weary at last, became stranded in Bombarda's public house, a branch establishment which had been set up in the Champs-Elysees by that famous restaurant-keeper, Bombarda, whose sign could then be seen in the Rue de Rivoli, near Delorme Alley.