(n.) A narrow passage; especially a walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes; a bordered way.
(n.) A narrow passage or way in a city, as distinct from a public street.
(n.) A passageway between rows of pews in a church.
(n.) Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.
(n.) The space between two rows of compositors' stands in a printing office.
(n.) A choice taw or marble.
Example Sentences:
(1) Defensively excellent, Sampson’s players persistently forced their opponents to construct their passing triangles down a series of cul-de-sacs and blind alleys.
(2) The animals, while still under the influence of the haloperidol, were then given six standard trials of running down the alley.
(3) In that frenzy of notes, I saw myself running from soldiers through the alleys of Al Amari.
(4) A truck stopped on a street corner, blaring martyrdom hymns throughout the cavernous lanes and alleys of the party's heartland.
(5) As the report explains, researchers have long pointed to a widely believed cultural script of what constitutes a “real” rape – the trope of the lone lady being attacked at night as she made her way home through dark alleys.
(6) And Chalmers alley-oop pass to LeBron who dunks it, the Heat are still here.
(7) His first serve is a memory and his forehand hits the doubles alley.
(8) The decision of entering the main alley depends on the "reference memory", of entering the alleys in the proper sequence, depends on the "working memory".
(9) Many complexes have dedicated around half their space to restaurants, cinemas, skating rinks, bowling alleys, spas, playgrounds and even language schools.
(10) Testing consisted of a single trial per day during which latencies to leave the start box and to traverse the alley were recorded.
(11) "Because people didn't see me falling out of clubs or shagging in the alleys with different girls every week, they thought something was wrong with me.
(12) The open drain down his alley overflows with black sewage.
(13) after completion of infusion, each rat was placed in the maze and observed under "blind" conditions for number of errors (blind alleys entered) and latency to reach reward.
(14) (6) All unoperated cats committed alley-entrance errors as well as door-push errors suggesting that commission of alley-entrance errors may reflect a normal process in two-choice learning.
(15) Research and theory in the field is judged to be at a choice point: advance to interesting and important problems integrated with biobehavioral research or enter a blind alley of pseudo-problems derived from computer metaphors and cognitive folk psychology.
(16) Damage of areas containig nigrostriatal dopaminergic or ascending noradrenergic neurons had negligible effects on bar pressing, tail moving and alley running for hypothalamic stimulation.
(17) Rats had to enter and run down an alley for water reward.
(18) We walk down the narrow alley lined with boutiques, past carts selling tteokbokki , the ubiquitous gelatinous rice cakes swimming in a spicy red sauce (which taste much nicer than they sound).
(19) Here, the decorticates showed difficulty both in learning to pull the ball out of the alley and in transferring to a push-type clearance response, but having transferred they coped well with subsequent reversals.
(20) More importantly, these experimental studies provide us a route (perhaps an escape route) from the blind-ending alleys of the current taxonomy of human malformations and place us squarely on the superhighway to understanding their pathogenesis.
Gunnel
Definition:
(n.) A gunwale.
(n.) A small, eel-shaped, marine fish of the genus Muraenoides; esp., M. gunnellus of Europe and America; -- called also gunnel fish, butterfish, rock eel.
Example Sentences:
(1) It has provided the platform for success that – with notable exceptions in Jonathan Edwards, Sally Gunnell, Linford Christie and Kelly Holmes – has proved elusive since Coe's own glory days in the mid-1980s.
(2) On Saturday, family spokesman Bob Gunnell said Ali died from septic shock due to unspecified natural causes.
(3) It was an unprecedented crowd in Colombia, and it convinced local entrepreneurs to set up a proper professional league, preferably stuffed to the gunnels with the world's top talent.
(4) Sally Gunnell wins gold at Barcelona Olympics: from the archive, 6 August 1992 Read more The world governing body for athletics issued a statement saying the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) had ratified a settlement agreement under which Shobukhova’s original suspension had been prolonged until March 2016.
(5) Some high-profile foreign leaders – Jordan’s King Abdullah, and Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan – were cut from the program at the last moment, to make room for two other, as yet unnamed, speakers, according to Ali family spokesman Bob Gunnell.
(6) It’s about learning lessons from the financial crisis,” said Gunnell, who is also a member of the National Suicide Advisory Group.
(7) He becomes only the fifth British athlete after Daley Thompson, Sally Gunnell, Jonathan Edwards and Linford Christie to hold all four titles simultaneously.
(8) However it concludes that rises in unemployment “appear to account for less than half the increase in suicide deaths during recessions.” As part of the study, Gunnell interviewed men in their 20s, 30s and 40s who had attempted suicide.
(9) In a recession, all sorts of things happen,” said David Gunnell, professor of epidemiology at the University of Bristol.
(10) As long as next week is the same I have a good chance of winning the worlds in Beijing.” Should he succeed, Rutherford would join a select group of British athletes as only Daley Thompson, Sally Gunnell, Jonathan Edwards and Linford Christie have held the Olympic, world, European and Commonwealth titles at the same time.
(11) Ali died late on Friday at a hospital in Phoenix, Arizona, the family’s spokesperson Bob Gunnell said.
(12) By quarter to five, the Cornerstone had shut its doors again, packed to the gunnels with about 200 fans.
(13) Gunnell , her eyes still wide and her smile ever widening, made sure she would remember every moment.
(14) High-profile foreign leaders – Jordan’s King Abdullah and the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan – were cut from the program at the last moment, to make room for two other, as yet unnamed, speakers, according to Ali family spokesman Bob Gunnell.
(15) Sally Gunnell, draped in a Union flag, walked ever so slowly around Barcelona’s Olympic stadium yesterday evening, sponging up every glorious, golden moment of her 400m hurdles victory.