garden path

Example Sentences

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The photograph, taken in April during their state visit to Italy, shows the smiling couple standing side by side on a garden path.

From BBC • Dec. 6, 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

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

Aunt Kitty was behind them on the garden path, there in her role as the faithful Madam Imbert.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan