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alley

noun as in narrow passage

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Two weeks later, her partially burned clothing was found on Bidston Hill, a large area of woodland about an hour's walk from the alley.

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A well-dressed crowd had begun to gather in front of the Bolshoi Kamenny, but she avoided the main entrance and instead made her way to the alley that ran alongside the building.

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The semitoothless old soothsayer had set up shop in the narrow alley that led to the theater’s stage door.

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The incident, beside a bowling alley and near Mount Vernon High School’s football stadium, took less than half an hour.

Once outside, we catch a glimpse of tapping heels ducking down a blind alley and it looks like the back of our crowd.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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