Collocations for "path"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "path" in context.
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path
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [garden, yard, house, forest, bicycle] path
- a [smooth, straight, narrow] path
- in the [hurricane's, elephant's, hunter's] path
- [take, follow] the path
- what path should we [take]?
- walk [along, down, up] the path
- [find, look for] a path to the [road, beach]
- [make, clear] a path (for)
- made a straight path for [home, school]
- the [city, area, town] is on the [plane's, aircraft's] flight path
- there were [cattle, sheep, animals] on the path
- [cattle] were blocking the path
- UK: led me up the garden path
- the path [continued, wound] for [two miles]
- the path led to the [road, woods]
- the path [ended, disappeared, vanished]
- is on the path to [success, fame]
- [choose, decide, further] your career path
- a path through the [forest, woods, city]
- the path less [traveled, trodden]
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'path' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
beat
- block
- chase
- clear
- close
- journey
- light
- open
- smooth
- along
- bar
- career
- crowd
- divide
- going
- left
- bike
- success
- sheet
- correct
- crazy
- direct
- down
- familiar
- well
- countryside
- cycle
- dirt
- glide
- gravel
- carriage
- cement
- concrete
- correction
- crook
- curve
- dip
- drove
- earthquake
- enemy
- jog
- kink
- mile
- recovery
- redemption
- resistance
- shrub
- skid
- slab
- slate
