With the pet shop owner's death her one obvious avenue of escape had closed.

It opened avenues previously closed, and some led to the heart of power.

As this avenue closed another advertisement appeared for machine knitters.

Even as he spoke, this avenue closed up in his mind's eye like a pupil contracting to a black point.

Now that avenue, too, could be closing.

With this avenue closed to her, what would she do?

With that avenue closed, the Devils found an alternate route tonight: give the other team a power play.

Relatives of victims who were planning to sue the screening companies for damages found a possible avenue of compensation and information closed.

But when all avenues to flight and protest have closed, force in the defensive posture is appropriate.

It is simply that as the legal avenues have closed, so the private sector has moved in to exploit the illegal avenues.