garden path

Example Sentences

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When she saw a union representative walking solemnly up the garden path, she knew the worst had happened.

From BBC • Feb. 29, 2024

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

“It’s a hard yes,” she reported to fellow canvassers as she walked toward them along a garden path, away from a voter’s house.

From Washington Post • May 2, 2022

Fist clenched against a surge of shame and disappointment, she left along the garden path.

From Slate • Nov. 27, 2021

“What a fine day for a group of strangers with no prior knowledge of each other to meet by chance on the garden path, as it were.”

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood