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  • noun Plural form of laneway.

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Examples

  • For interesting there is the ice bar, some of the laneways, ride the city circle trams, plus the nemerous bars, eateries etc.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Melbourne tips. 2010

  • A heavy oaten aroma drifted up from the Guinness brewery, wrapping itself about the laneways of his youth.

    Joseph O'Connor: 'It was a voice that opened worlds' 2010

  • I love its cafes and bookshops and bars and libraries and laneways and did I mention bars?

    Archive 2008-08-01 lili 2008

  • I love its cafes and bookshops and bars and libraries and laneways and did I mention bars?

    My City of Literature lili 2008

  • It was only about a ten minute walk away from the video shop down narrow, unevenly paved laneways and dog-legged streets.

    The Legacy Kirsten Tranter 2010

  • Science fiction's status for decades as a pariah genre meant that writers could do things with literary style, theme, and political content that their mainstream counterparts could never get away with (games, comics, early hip-hop, mashups, and many of the other back laneways of popular culture have also enjoyed this status).

    Boing Boing 2008

  • And Ralph was my key between these places: he knew the dealers who sold the badly cut and well-cut drugs in tiny plastic bags, he knew the places open latest, down tiny laneways, where you could still get a drink after hours.

    The Legacy Kirsten Tranter 2010

  • I turned into dark laneways and the moon shone in eerie silence, full and accusing.

    Peter Clothier: The Novice: A Book Review 2009

  • She was impressed by how easily they squeezed through the narrow laneways while holding their trays of beverages and snacks.

    Sluggers: Water, Water Everywhere Loren Long 2009

  • She was impressed by how easily they squeezed through the narrow laneways while holding their trays of beverages and snacks.

    Sluggers: Water, Water Everywhere Loren Long 2009

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