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

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

Ash led the huntress up the garden path and into the kitchen, and she poured some water from the pitcher on the scarred kitchen table into a clean goblet.

From "Ash" by Malinda Lo