garden path

Example Sentences

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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

"She once chased someone from the BNP down our garden path with a rolling pin in one hand and me in the other arm," the Desert Island Discs presenter recalled.

From BBC • Jun. 25, 2022

“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

Potted mums look stunning hanging from a porch hook or lining a garden path.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2021

She ducked under the tangled honeysuckle toward the garden path, using her trowel like a machete to hack through some overgrown vines that crowded her jungly little porch.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver