garden path
Example Sentences
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The photograph, taken in April during their state visit to Italy, shows the smiling couple standing side by side on a garden path.
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2025
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
He paid a company to erect a raised, square, demountable studio at the end of a garden path.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 22, 2022
Potted mums look stunning hanging from a porch hook or lining a garden path.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2021
Generous punctuation would also take the fun out of some of the psycholinguists’ garden path sentences, such as When Fred eats food gets thrown.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
