back alley

Example Sentences

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Bickerstaff was referring to a time-honored tradition of Detroit basketball: Turning a hard court ballet into a back-alley brawl.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

Shades of Charli XCX’s chaotic back-alley meta-entrance into the Crypto.com arena from Addison Rae here, with a cool pivot into choreo.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2026

In this country, before abortion was legal, women went to both reputable doctors and back-alley quacks to get care.

From Slate • Nov. 7, 2023

They loved the supreme crispiness surrounding divine meatiness they encountered at the best back-alley katsu places in Japan — where, as with ramen, katsu is taken to the level of a comfort-food art form.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 14, 2022

At the university, just a few miles from his back-alley boardinghouse on Invalidenstrasse, Mendel began to experience the intellectual baptism that he had so ardently sought in Brno.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee