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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of an
alley .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Favorite moments: Provenza gunning a car over the dummy in the alleylike a little boy with a new Tonka truck.
'The Closer' recap: A tricky mystery and a return to top form | EW.com 2008
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Its alleylike streets, winding around historic buildings, make the old seaport a perfect place for serious trouble.
Peace And Quiet 2007
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She found herself in an alleylike street lined with pub and restaurant delivery entrances.
Leave the Grave Green Deborah Crombie 1995
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She passed the alleylike opening of a small street crowded with little shops, thinking how they'd kill her — Poppa James and Amelia Blue — if they really knew about her, and what she was doing for the money to buy stuff like gold chains and Sassoon jeans.
the dirty duck Grimes, Martha 1984
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She passed the alleylike opening of a small street crowded with little shops, thinking how they'd kill her — Poppa James and Amelia Blue — if they really knew about her, and what she was doing for the money to buy stuff like gold chains and Sassoon jeans.
The Dirty Duck Grimes, Martha 1984
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Here, a few steps below street level in an alleylike space, you can sit up-close at the counter and watch guys in head scarves stir cauldrons of broth and char slabs of boiled pork with a blowtorch for the house specialty, chicken paitan ramen, a rather minimalist soup of chewy egg noodles, scallions, onions, nori and a few tender slices of char sui pork in a deeply chicken-y base ($9.25).
NYT > Home Page By BETSY ANDREWS 2010
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Like she said, it wasn’t much—a tiny living room, half of which was taken up by a brick fireplace, an alleylike kitchen with a green linoleum floor, and what I at first thought was a closet in the back but turned out to be her bedroom.
THE LAST GREAT GETAWAY of the WATER BALLOON BOYS SCOTT WILLIAM CARTER 2010
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Like she said, it wasn’t much—a tiny living room, half of which was taken up by a brick fireplace, an alleylike kitchen with a green linoleum floor, and what I at first thought was a closet in the back but turned out to be her bedroom.
THE LAST GREAT GETAWAY of the WATER BALLOON BOYS SCOTT WILLIAM CARTER 2010
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Like she said, it wasn’t much—a tiny living room, half of which was taken up by a brick fireplace, an alleylike kitchen with a green linoleum floor, and what I at first thought was a closet in the back but turned out to be her bedroom.
THE LAST GREAT GETAWAY of the WATER BALLOON BOYS SCOTT WILLIAM CARTER 2010
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Like she said, it wasn’t much—a tiny living room, half of which was taken up by a brick fireplace, an alleylike kitchen with a green linoleum floor, and what I at first thought was a closet in the back but turned out to be her bedroom.
THE LAST GREAT GETAWAY of the WATER BALLOON BOYS SCOTT WILLIAM CARTER 2010
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