side street

Example Sentences

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“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

"It was coming down the side street off the side of the pub like a river. It was bringing bins, bricks and debris down the street."

From BBC • Aug. 29, 2025

The moment Longoria drives away, agents on both sides of the truck remain in sight of the video, and they then pile into their vehicles and pursue Longoria’s truck down a side street.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 25, 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

They passed only one guard, leaning on the wall in a side street and smoking.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke