Synonyms for garden path


Grammar : Noun
Spell : gahr-dn-path, -pahth
Phonetic Transcription : ˈgɑr dnˌpæθ, -ˌpɑθ


Définition of garden path

  • As in primrose path : noun easy course
Example sentences :
  • But when Harkless's step crunched the garden path there was no one there.
  • Extract from : « The Gentleman From Indiana » by Booth Tarkington
  • Coryston walked up the garden path, looking about him suspiciously.
  • Extract from : « The Coryston Family » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
  • It had been noticed, upon a garden path, for the first time, after a thunderstorm.
  • Extract from : « The Book of the Damned » by Charles Fort
  • Some one was coming up the garden path—a tall figure of a man.
  • Extract from : « The Trail of '98 » by Robert W. Service
  • She placed the box of arbutus in the garden path and laid her hand on his arm.
  • Extract from : « Patchwork » by Anna Balmer Myers
  • Coming along the garden path was none other than the dreaded Dink.
  • Extract from : « Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman » by Emma Speed Sampson
  • At the far end of the garden path was a different sort of scene.
  • Extract from : « Torchy, Private Sec. » by Sewell Ford
  • We stole down the garden path to the stable, and I unlocked the door and let her in.
  • Extract from : « The Lowest Rung » by Mary Cholmondeley
  • If you tell me when you see him coming up the garden path, I will run.
  • Extract from : « A Sheaf of Corn » by Mary E. Mann
  • I walked up my garden path as I was coming home from shooting.
  • Extract from : « Bird Day; How to prepare for it » by Charles Almanzo Babcock

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