garden-path

[ gahr-dn-path, -pahth ]

adjective

1. 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.

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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