back street
Example Sentences
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Find the right back street just south of the French Quarter, ascend a set of stairs and you’ll find Habakuk Fine Coffee and Bistro, a Michelin Bib Gourmand winner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
A hair salon in a Kharkiv back street is one of many small businesses with a generator whirring noisily outside the door.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2024
My brilliant solution was to somehow maneuver the Civic two blocks, bucking and wheezing all the way, park it out of sight on a back street, and furtively drive my own car to Seattle.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2023
“I didn’t know if it was coming from the back street behind me or in front of me,” she recalled in an interview.
From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2023
Or they would disappear, alter themselves out of recognition, learn to speak with proletarian accents, get jobs in a factory, and live out their lives undetected in a back street.
From "1984" by George Orwell
