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View synonyms for garden-path
garden-path
[ gahr-dn-path, -pahth ]
adjective
- noting or pertaining to a sentence that is easily parsed incorrectly because its beginning suggests it has an interpretation that it clearly does not have.
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Example Sentences
Outside their voices still retreated with their footsteps, down the garden path, and out at the terrace gate.
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She placed the box of arbutus in the garden path and laid her hand on his arm.
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Coming along the garden path was none other than the dreaded Dink.
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And Margaret sank down upon the garden path, for she was so happy that she couldn't move another inch.
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She sat still a little while, and then rising, she looked out and saw him go down the garden path, a knapsack on his back.
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