garden path
Example Sentences
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I love being hoodwinked, led up the garden path, dazzled by red herrings and then awed into submission by an ingenious finale.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2023
Potted mums look stunning hanging from a porch hook or lining a garden path.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2021
Visiting the asylum, I loved seeing easels along the garden path, showing his best-known landscapes, the views mostly unchanged today.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 4, 2021
So we went through all the programs they had, and they led me down the garden path to one called the Master of Arts in Leadership.
From Slate ● Jul. 16, 2020
Briony remained standing with one foot still on the garden path, the other on the front step.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
