How do you use Alleyway in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like alley or street, plus the exact meaning.
Alleyway meaning
- A narrow street formed by the proximity of adjacent buildings.
- A passage between two rows of cabins in a ship.
Using Alleyway
- The main meaning on this page is: A narrow street formed by the proximity of adjacent buildings. | A passage between two rows of cabins in a ship.
- Useful related words include: alley, back street, street.
- In the example corpus, alleyway often appears in combinations such as: an alleyway, the alleyway, alleyway in.
Context around Alleyway
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 8 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Alleyway
- In this selection, "alleyway" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 21.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, nearby, first, blocked, nearby, cluttered and near stand out and add context to how "alleyway" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a blocked alleyway on the and a nearby alleyway also cordoned. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "alleyway" sits close to words such as abidjan, acb and achievers, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with alleyway
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A sign asks people not to dump their rubbish in the alleyway. (12 words)
A second cordon was in place at an alleyway just off Buckley Lane. (13 words)
He dragged her down an alleyway and into a grassy area in Top Valley. (14 words)
The court previously heard Mitchell had located Mr Wilkinson near the Aldi supermarket off Jubilee Road and chased him through part of Buckley before cornering him inside a blocked alleyway on the nearby Jubilee Court complex. (36 words)
Alex, a reporter from Glasgow, turned out to be the blazed one and happily admitted that he had shared a spliff in an alleyway with a woman who appeared on the game earlier. (33 words)
In a nearby alleyway they found parts of a broken mobile phone – which was later confirmed as belonging to David – and a bloodied claw hammer hanging from the branch of a tree. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
Alex, a reporter from Glasgow, turned out to be the blazed one and happily admitted that he had shared a spliff in an alleyway with a woman who appeared on the game earlier.
A sign asks people not to dump their rubbish in the alleyway.
During the investigation, Key West Police officers located a local homeless man lying on the ground in the alleyway nearby.
Following the advice from the reviews I headed around to the back and down an alleyway cluttered with bins.
He dragged her down an alleyway and into a grassy area in Top Valley.
Hugh Cropper, attorney for the developer, said his client hopes to purchase the alleyway in an effort to secure a planned overlay district (POD) designation.
In a nearby alleyway they found parts of a broken mobile phone – which was later confirmed as belonging to David – and a bloodied claw hammer hanging from the branch of a tree.
Our first alleyway is one of London's most unusual in that it's not at ground level.
Paint Your Part, a yearly art competition, keeps local art hanging in an alleyway near Swoon Boutique.
Seeing the struggle Stallard ran out from the alleyway, opened the driver's door and tried to remove the key from the centre console.
The Castleford Tigers star was filmed romping with a married woman down an alleyway in Castleford, West Yorks.
The council will also replace a series of alleyway gates which it says are no longer fit for purpose.
The court heard Kemp, who had been studying zoology at Bangor University, had been living in a shared house down an alleyway in the city.
The court previously heard Mitchell had located Mr Wilkinson near the Aldi supermarket off Jubilee Road and chased him through part of Buckley before cornering him inside a blocked alleyway on the nearby Jubilee Court complex.
The suspect took her into an alleyway and then attempted to force the girl to perform a sex act on him for money.
A fun new shop that caught our eye is Ine’s Jewelry and Art that is located at the end of a long closed off alleyway in the middle of Davis Street.
Ali finally faced justice for raping a girl in a Rotherham alleyway more than 20 years ago.
A MAN was arrested on suspicion of drug dealing after officers spotted a suspect in an alleyway in Whiston.
A second cordon was in place at an alleyway just off Buckley Lane.
As stated, a police cordon is in place around an end terraced property, with a nearby alleyway also cordoned off.
Common combinations with alleyway
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- an alleyway 36×
- the alleyway 18×
- alleyway in 8×
- alleyway and 4×
- alleyway between 4×
- nearby alleyway 3×
- alleyway near 3×
- narrow alleyway 3×
- alleyway with 2×
- first alleyway 2×