as in streets
a narrow passage between buildings
One can spend days exploring all the alleys and backstreets of the old city.
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Recent Examples of alleys
The city may still enforce rules banning sleeping on sidewalks and streets or in alleys and doorways.
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Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 30 Mar. 2025
The claustrophobia—alleys that might be almost 900 years old that have never seen the sun since they were built.
—Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 14 Mar. 2025
Only a handful of billiard halls and bowling alleys are doing business in Doral.
—Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2025
Later, surveillance video captured the same Nissan driving through alleys near the scene of the shooting, the complaint alleges.
—Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 2025
They are armed with automatic weapons – largely smuggled from the United States – and move unhindered through the narrow, winding alleys of their neighborhood strongholds in Port-au-Prince, which national and multinational police forces are often unable to navigate in their bulky armored vehicles.
—Linnea Fehrm, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Mar. 2025
In step one of the project, workers will send plastic pipes 450 feet into the ground beneath Chicago alleys.
—Nara Schoenberg, Chicago Tribune, 6 Mar. 2025
Explore Billboard See latest videos, charts and news As Billboard Arabia’s February cover star, Saint Levant’s artistic journey has taken him from Jerusalem and the alleys of Gaza to global stages from The Olympia in Paris and Coachella and Lollapalooza.
—Billboard Arabia, Billboard, 5 Mar. 2025
The singer and the songwriter were among the Homs residents who chose to stay, retreating into the warren of alleys in Homs' old city.
—Jawad Rizkallah, NPR, 5 Mar. 2025
Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 30 Mar. 2025
The claustrophobia—alleys that might be almost 900 years old that have never seen the sun since they were built.
—Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 14 Mar. 2025
Only a handful of billiard halls and bowling alleys are doing business in Doral.
—Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2025
Later, surveillance video captured the same Nissan driving through alleys near the scene of the shooting, the complaint alleges.
—Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 2025
They are armed with automatic weapons – largely smuggled from the United States – and move unhindered through the narrow, winding alleys of their neighborhood strongholds in Port-au-Prince, which national and multinational police forces are often unable to navigate in their bulky armored vehicles.
—Linnea Fehrm, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Mar. 2025
In step one of the project, workers will send plastic pipes 450 feet into the ground beneath Chicago alleys.
—Nara Schoenberg, Chicago Tribune, 6 Mar. 2025
Explore Billboard See latest videos, charts and news As Billboard Arabia’s February cover star, Saint Levant’s artistic journey has taken him from Jerusalem and the alleys of Gaza to global stages from The Olympia in Paris and Coachella and Lollapalooza.
—Billboard Arabia, Billboard, 5 Mar. 2025
The singer and the songwriter were among the Homs residents who chose to stay, retreating into the warren of alleys in Homs' old city.
—Jawad Rizkallah, NPR, 5 Mar. 2025
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“Alleys.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alleys. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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