Collocations for alley - noun

dark, darkened
deserted, empty (esp. AmE)
little, narrow
a maze of narrow alleys

cobbled (esp. BrE)
back, side
blind (figurative)
Over-reliance on statistics has led us down a blind alley.

lead onto sth, lead to sth
The alley leads to the restaurant kitchen.

cat

along an/the alley, down an/the alley, up an/the alley
I walked back along a side alley.
a bar down a little alley

in an/the alley
They had cornered him in an alley.

through an/the alley
She wandered through the back alleys.