side street
Example Sentences
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She said that as she stopped to take a photograph, her fiance went up a side street but by the time she had followed him he had disappeared.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
“The heat doesn’t bother me much,” he said, unloading his bicycle — a blue and yellow 1989 Trek 400 — from the trunk of his car on a side street in Reseda.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Paul is talking to me from a side street in Romford.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
“We are going to be looking around, and we are staying with the group, not going on a side street, and not gather unnecessarily.”
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 11, 2026
Six of the Death Eaters ran toward them: Harry, Ron, and Hermione backed as quickly as possible down the nearest side street, and the Death Eaters missed them by inches.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
