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  • noun Plural form of alleyway.

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Examples

  • The council said it hopes the service will stop people from urinating in alleyways, saying some 10,000 gallons of urine ends up in Westminster streets each year.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • Far be it from me to imply that a public official is not telling the truth, but 700 firearms seems like an awful lot of guns to find stashed in alleyways and lying around abandoned homes.

    The Second Battle of New Orleans 2006

  • If you're the sort of scumbag who mugs people in alleyways, obviously you don't feel too guilty about it - otherwise you wouldn't be doing it.

    God, I Love My Wife dtaylor 2005

  • At dawn, when the night retreats across the pacific toward distant Asia, it is reluctant to go, leaving deep black pools in alleyways, under parked cars, in culverts, and beneath the leafy canopies of ancient oaks.

    Excerpt: Seize The Night by Dean Koontz 1999

  • * bikes were not suited to rider (too tall, too short, not everyone likes the curved road bike handlebars) * at the end of the year we had 3 bikes returned. most of the bikes were tossed off rooftops, into the lake, crushed in alleyways … no good.

    Yellow Bikes Hard to Track at cvillenews.com 2002

  • The various answers about why he hasn’t received the ring are all valid, though there is perhaps a little too much “outside looking in” going on, with people justifying the non-ring status by way of saying that the books work better with Green Lantern (who is always Hal Jordan to me, no matter who else wears the ring) wielding the alien tech while Bats skulks around in alleyways and rooftops.

    2010 February « The Graveyard 2010

  • The various answers about why he hasn’t received the ring are all valid, though there is perhaps a little too much “outside looking in” going on, with people justifying the non-ring status by way of saying that the books work better with Green Lantern (who is always Hal Jordan to me, no matter who else wears the ring) wielding the alien tech while Bats skulks around in alleyways and rooftops.

    Batman & Willpower = Green Lantern Batman? « The Graveyard 2010

  • The student in Melbourne wrote about the multiculturalism of the city and the coffee/beer culture in the alleyways, which is something I particularly like.

    En hoe is het in Melbourne? « The expat numbat: from AU to NL 2009

  • However, according to Superintendent Warren Riley of the NOPD, We took guns that were stolen that were stashed in alleyways.

    The Second Battle of New Orleans 2006

  • A half-century ago, vehicles in the alleyways were the problem.

    Aspen Times - Top Stories 2009

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