back alley

Example Sentences

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The back-and-forth fosters confusion but also distrust, she said: "It further perpetuates the myth of like, the sketchy abortion doctor in the back alley."

From Barron's • May 10, 2026

“We can play a defensive game if we have to. And I think we can play a back alley game, too.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2025

Shawn Younker, incarcerated in Pennsylvania, writes, “We might as well be rummaging the dusty old leftovers in some thrift store or back alley dumpster.”

From Slate • Sep. 17, 2024

The students had planned to meet that day after classes in a back alley less than 300 feet from the campus, he said.

From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2023

I mean, suddenly he was that little kid tearing down a back alley with some housewife hanging wash and shouting, “Look at ’im scoot!”

From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli