garden path

Example Sentences

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He's leading us all down a garden path and deep down, I reckon he knows it too.

From BBC • May 29, 2025

I love being hoodwinked, led up the garden path, dazzled by red herrings and then awed into submission by an ingenious finale.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2023

Potted mums look stunning hanging from a porch hook or lining a garden path.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2021

Visiting the asylum, I loved seeing easels along the garden path, showing his best-known landscapes, the views mostly unchanged today.

From Washington Post • Feb. 4, 2021

I could live there all alone, she thought, slowing the car to look down the winding garden path to the small blue front door with, perfectly, a white cat on the step.

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson