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.

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How to use garden-path in a sentence

  • Outside their voices still retreated with their footsteps, down the garden path, and out at the terrace gate.

    The Creators | May Sinclair
  • She placed the box of arbutus in the garden path and laid her hand on his arm.

    Patchwork | Anna Balmer Myers
  • Coming along the garden path was none other than the dreaded Dink.

    Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman | Emma Speed Sampson
  • And Margaret sank down upon the garden path, for she was so happy that she couldn't move another inch.

  • 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.

    The Red City | S. Weir Mitchell