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

Fist clenched against a surge of shame and disappointment, she left along the garden path.

From Slate • Nov. 27, 2021

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

From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2021

Cruelty to punctuation is quite unlegislated: you can get away with pulling the legs off semicolons; shrivelling question marks on the garden path under a powerful magnifying glass; you name it.

From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author