garden path

Example Sentences

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When she saw a union representative walking solemnly up the garden path, she knew the worst had happened.

From BBC • Feb. 29, 2024

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

“It’s a hard yes,” she reported to fellow canvassers as she walked toward them along a garden path, away from a voter’s house.

From Washington Post • May 2, 2022

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

From Slate • Nov. 27, 2021

He opened the gate and walked swiftly and silently up the garden path, Harry at his heels, then pushed the front door very slowly, his wand raised and at the ready.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling