mean streets

Example Sentences

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And yet, late last year, I spent two weeks test-driving one of China’s hottest cars around the mean streets of New Jersey.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

And this was on the mean streets of Brixton.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2025

That may be because Musk’s sole strategy for cleaning Twitter’s mean streets of all those cyborgs has revolved around one simple but woefully flawed premise: Bots don’t pay.

From Slate • Oct. 19, 2023

On these mean streets, love seems not to have much of a chance.

From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2023

When Mother had said Alice would be safer in the woods with me than out on the mean streets, she had won.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George