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
Steve, from Chester, told BBC Radio Merseyside he saw the paramedic being struck, and recounted how he, his wife and friend ran down a side street to find safety.
From BBC • May 27, 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
We’ll rent a small bungalow on a side street several blocks from the Nielsens, four rooms downstairs and one up.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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