She was a block away from the only house in a dim alley that had a lantern burning in the window.

Slowly, stealthily, he crept down the dim alley, virtually invisible in the darkness.

Now, as we moved from one dim alley to the next, the silence grew as thick as the moist air.

Instead, you enter the school from East 138th Street, walking past a litter-strewn lot and through a dim alley screened by razor wire.

Then, happening to glance down a dim alley, he saw his son.

"You children keep up now, mind you," the innkeeper told them, starting away down the dim alley.

They were ushered past the trees, into a somewhat smaller and dimmer alley.

Passing a side street on his right, he halted when he heard weeping coming from the dim alley.

A nondescript old man, dressed in tattered dirty rags shuffled aimlessly down the dim alley.

Wandering the dim alleys, I finally reached a door that led out into an underground parking lot forested with thick pillars.