backstreet

Example Sentences

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Today’s forgotten backstreet can be tomorrow’s “south of…” or “north of….” the new hot place, or adjacent to the new hot place.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 13, 2025

But she felt the backstreet clinic was her only choice.

From BBC • Nov. 26, 2023

And Justino didn’t sweat away the months in this compact gym in a gritty industrial backstreet in Orange County simply for a paycheck.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 24, 2022

“As a teenager I nearly bled to death after a backstreet abortion,” Josephine Kamara, an activist, said in a statement.

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2022

Farid parked along the curb on a small backstreet next to a ramshackle, abandoned building with no door.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini