"alley" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Below him lay a narrow alley strewn with broken glass that sparkled in the sunlight, and beyond that stretched a vista of bright streets.
- As we strolled around, Sampson paused on occasion to make a mental note of potential trouble signs: an alley strewn with garbage nobody had bothered to pick up; a sign in Spanish in several windows, complaining about the lack of a park in the vicinity where children can play.
- He seemed to take pleasure in leading audiences into blind alleys strewn with false clues to the meaning of his work.
- After receiving a tip from a source whom the police did not identify, about 35 detectives crept down the alley, strewn with rubble and sand, that leads to the building.
- Jerome M. Hauer, the field marshal in the Giuliani administration's escalating war on rats, led a gaggle of reporters and television camera crews yesterday afternoon through the Highbridge section of the Bronx to the battlefield: an alley strewn with garbage.
- Along Bethel Street, the Rev. Calvin Keene of Memorial Baptist Church pointed to houses that looked as if they had been bombed and an alley strewn with debris.
- The bugbears broke into a run, turning down an alley strewn with stones and debris.
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