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laneway

n. (context Canada English) A narrow roadway; a lane

Usage examples of "laneway".

He stopped as he approached the laneway between his home and the back of Carrick Gardens.

Three or four people passed the mouth of the laneway singing and shouting.

Many times he wondered if he was having a dream, if it was him lying here in a laneway with a knife in his hand.

He called to her and began to make his way down to the road, stepping up over the mound of rubble which had been pushed out from the house to block the laneway against tinkers drawing their caravans in and settling.

He watched the wheels of the Garda car bounce as it came up the laneway, and he saw a face close up to the window.

The Spear Mark formed a laneway for her, in a spiral that led counterclockwise around the blaze again and again.

It was still dark when the enormous government travelling coach came rumbling down the narrow little laneway, harnessed to four strong carriage horses.

I saw Father Droppet coming up the laneway on his grey mare, fear came into my heart.

He stood in the laneway in his loose shirt made of old flour sacks, his long hair blowing in the wind.

Chevy bounced in the ruts of the long laneway as he left the highway and drove the half mile to the camp.

When they left the lit farmyard, Will flicked on a flashlight and played its beam across the dirt laneway in front of them.

Band of Four stood in the dappled shade of the laneway, sunken here and overhung by old and many-branched trees, and looked up the sunlit hillside ahead, past the crumbling wall and the leaning markers and tombs it enclosed, to where a familiar sprawling stone mansion rose out of the trees and clinging vines to stare endlessly down at the river.

A couple who had walked into the laneway stood staring as the van disgorged wires and lights and boxes.

There was a laneway, then a cleared field of sorts, scrap-built hutments for odds and ends, blocks of stone and rubble.

The part of the building closest to the laneway was all Black Joe, peeling in places.