garden path

Example Sentences

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In a statement to the court, Mrs Norman said she felt "guilt and shame" about "being led down the garden path" by Villafane.

From BBC • Nov. 26, 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

Reflecting on his efforts to decode potato spindle tuber disease, he wryly told the New York Times, “we went up the garden path many times.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2023

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

From Slate • Nov. 27, 2021

Briony remained standing with one foot still on the garden path, the other on the front step.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan