back alley

Example Sentences

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“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

“So it’s no longer the idea of you going to a back alley in this dangerous area and making a buy,” Rogeana Patterson-King, assistant special agent in charge with the U.S.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 16, 2022

I wandered through the maze of empty streets, then down a winding back alley that dead-ended by the entrance of a small pizza shop.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline