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
“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
I still prefer a side street, but I’ll take the freeway if I have to.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2025
His book is, on one level, a relic of a lost moment — a time before the Iranian revolution, when Afghanistan was a place a young traveler could "wander down a dreamy side street."
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2025
Then, certain it had been only a prank, 1 started down the side street toward well-lighted Dryades, where I knew I would be safe.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
