garden path

Example Sentences

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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

Reflecting on his efforts to decode potato spindle tuber disease, he wryly told the New York Times, “we went up the garden path many times.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2023

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

From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2021

So we went through all the programs they had, and they led me down the garden path to one called the Master of Arts in Leadership.

From Slate • Jul. 16, 2020

“What a fine day for a group of strangers with no prior knowledge of each other to meet by chance on the garden path, as it were.”

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood