Alleys Sentence Examples

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  • The streets are joined by alleys just wide enough to pass through.

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  • Sometimes the design consists of alleys only, as in fig.

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  • Villena is a labyrinth of winding alleys, which contain some interesting examples of Moorish domestic architecture.

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  • Seoul has some wide streets of shops, hundreds of narrow alleys, and is very fairly clean.

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  • From the ramparts of Edinburgh Castle and ghostly medieval alleys to enchanting waterside walkways.

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  • I ventured down many blind alleys and took several wrong turnings.

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  • The lanes and alleys of the early city were unpaved and filthy with slops from the houses.

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  • The modern town of Palestrina, a collection of narrow and filthy alleys, stands on the terraces once occupied by the temple of Fortune.

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  • The "Fuggerei," built in 1519 by the brothers Fugger, is a miniature town, with six streets or alleys, three gates and a church, and consists of a hundred and six small houses let to indigent Roman Catholic citizens at a nominal rent.

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  • One is very much like another, and nearly all their streets are replicas of the better alleys of Seoul.

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  • Many bowling alleys offer balls for sale, although you may find that the price is a little higher than what you would pay if you purchased the ball elsewhere.

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  • As the name of a street changes with almost every block, according to the old Spanish custom, a list of street names is sometimes mistakenly accepted as the number of continuous thoroughfares in the city, so that it has been said that Mexico has 600 to 900 streets and alleys.

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  • These improvements connote the obliteration of the insanitary and overcrowded courts and alleys which were to be found between all the main streets, few in number, connecting the upper and the lower towns.

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  • In each action-packed episode, viewers see the seedy underside of crime, as Dog gives chase through questionable motels, dark alleys, and drug-infested neighborhoods.

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  • He drove them through back roads and alleys to ensure no one followed before taking the highway and exiting into a direction that appeared to be nothing but desert.

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  • She paused at the intersection with another narrow alley, not liking the smelly alleys at all.

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  • Gabe made his way through the narrow alleys and disjointed walkways that wound like a maze through the market.

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  • But though the same statute absolutely prohibited bowling alleys, Henry VIII.

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  • Within the city the principal streets have been roughly paved, and iron bars placed across the narrow alleys to prevent the passage of camels.

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  • They often rise tier above tier, and are sometimes all on the same level " facing each other as in streets, and branching off laterally into smaller lanes or alleys "; and FIG.

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  • The Altstadt, though several broad streets have been opened through it, still preserves many of its narrow alleys and other medieval features.

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  • The company supports a school, Leclaire Academy, and has built a club-house, bowling alleys, tennis-courts, base-ball grounds, &c. The first settlement on the site of Edwardsville was made in 1812, and in 1815 the town was laid out and named in honour of Ninian Edwards (1775-1833), the governor of the Illinois Territory (1809-1818), and later United States senator (1818-1824) and governor of the state of Illinois (1826-1830).

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  • The dirty streets full of petty traders, the gloomy bazaar with its multitude of tiny shops, the market squares, the blind alleys, the little gates in the dead courtyard walls, all give the place the stamp of a Tatar or Turkish town.

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  • Broad regular streets replaced the narrow winding alleys.

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  • That which is perhaps the more common consists of walks, or alleys as they FIG.

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  • The narrow alleys of Porto, Pendino and Mercato have nearly all disappeared, and old Naples has been vanishing day by day.

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  • They forbade, for example, the building of streets wide enough to admit a cart, a regulation that accounted for the number of narrow wynds and alleys in the town.

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  • Behind the market square and the main street lie a labyrinth of narrow streets interconnected by covered courtyards and alleys, with extensive warehouses and cellars.

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  • Narrow streets, some cobbled, alleys leading down to the waters edge.

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  • With its winding alleys intricately laced between cool squares, stepping in to Middle Temple really is like stepping back in time.

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  • The village is a maze of narrow alleys, topped by a 12th century church.

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  • You can't go down dark alleys in studios - you find the studio wall!

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  • Quaint little alleys and yards off the steep main street house many interesting shops offering a wide range of unusual gifts and mementos.

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  • Many tenpin bowling alleys are open seven days a week, every day of the year with the exception of Christmas day.

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  • Be wary of pursuing blind alleys which are not directed toward the principal goals of your thesis plan.

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  • A good launchpad for browsing with minimal risk of being led up too many blind alleys.

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  • We drew lots of blanks, went up endless blind alleys.

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  • The village of Quarry has alleys galore The stone from the quarries well known.

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  • These being the dead-end alleys of negative evidence, is there hope of an explanation on the open avenues of scientific theory?

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  • He also conveys the harmony and completeness of much of the existing townscape with its intricate pattern of winding alleys and hidden courtyards.

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  • The discredit attaching to bowling alleys, first established in London in 1455, probably encouraged subsequent repressive legislation, for many of the alleys were connected with taverns frequented by the dissolute and gamesters.

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  • But in time the excesses attending the game rendered it unfashionable, and after the Revolution it became practically a pothouse recreation, nearly all the greens, like the alleys, having been constructed in the grounds and gardens attached to taverns.

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  • It now includes most of the principal thoroughfares, which form a notable contrast to many of the smaller streets and alleys, in which good building and cleanliness are lacking.

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  • In yonder city's dingy alleys the sun shines not, and the air is foul.

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  • Already she began to see quite plainly the little elves in their tall pointed hats, dancing down the dusky alleys, and peeping from between the bushes, and they seemed to come nearer and nearer; and she stretched her hands up towards the tree in which the doll sat and they laughed, and pointed their fingers at her.

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  • At daybreak, however, those nearing the town at the Dorogomilov bridge saw ahead of them masses of soldiers crowding and hurrying across the bridge, ascending on the opposite side and blocking the streets and alleys, while endless masses of troops were bearing down on them from behind, and an unreasoning hurry and alarm overcame them.

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  • All year round skittle leagues are the focus of fierce neighborhood rivalries in the long, thin alleys tacked to the back of pubs.

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  • Some of the bookstores are tucked down alleys or behind teeny entrance gardens.

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  • West of the square, the Moorish alleys tumble down the hill toward the city walls.

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  • These include bars on private homes windows, and graffiti on walls, alleys or apartment buildings.

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  • Although most bowling alleys supply just about anything a bowler might need, many serious bowlers prefer to have their own equipment.

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  • The battle of the pigskin rather takes place in back alleys, on rooftops, and neighbourhood parks.

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  • Dive under the seas of Istanbul and challenge the back alleys of Hong Kong.

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  • In urban, college soaked areas, alternative barber shops and salons are quickly filling up downtown storefronts and alleys.

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  • Choosing the theme of your child's next party is the first step; venues, such as bowling alleys, gymnastics facilities or the beach, can help you cement the idea of the theme you have in mind.

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  • Many bowling alleys offer bumpered lanes and lightweight balls for children to eliminate some of the frustrations of unskilled or young bowlers.

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  • Attractions were gradually added, first a merry-go-round, then two bowling alleys, a tennis court, and a scenic railroad.

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  • The town has been built without the slightest regard to regularity; the streets are even more intricate and winding than those in most other Eastern towns, and with the exception of the bazaars and some open squares, the interior is little else than a labyrinth of alleys and passages.

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  • Some of the older designs for labyrinths, however, avoid this close parallelism of the alleys, which, though equally involved and intricate in their windings, are carried through blocks of thick planting, as shown in fig.

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  • The children who crowd these grimy alleys, half-clad and underfed, shrink away from your outstretched hand as if from a blow.

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  • After the Turks were driven from the city in 1878, it was in many respects modernized; but something of its former character is preserved in the ancient Turkish palace, mosque and fountain, the maze of winding alleys and picturesque houses in the older quarters, and, on market days, by the medley of peasant costumes - Bulgarian, Albanian and Rumanian, as well as Servian.

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