garden-path

American  

[gahr-dn-path, -pahth] / ˈgɑr dnˌpæθ, -ˌpɑθ /

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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Example Sentences

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garden-path

In a minute or two I was running down the garden-path.

From My New Home by L. Leslie (Leonard Leslie) Brooke

Olivia felt as if she were dreaming as she followed the little procession down the dark garden-path.

From Doctor Luttrell's First Patient by Rosa Nouchette Carey

Sir Penthony lowers his eyes and shifts his aggressive position; Lowry, with bent head, and without another word, walks away from her down the garden-path out of the gate, and disappears—for years.

From Molly Bawn by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton

I could not believe my eyes; yes, there he was coming along the garden-path, and beside him—Susanna.

From A Sister's Love A Novel by W. Heimburg

The baker's cart drew up at the gate, and the man, springing lightly down, came up the garden-path with a basket of loaves.

From Better than Play by Mabel Quiller-Couch

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